Publications
Our staff write books on a wide variety of aviation- and space-related topics, including our exhibitions; the collection; the history of science and technology; and planetary science.
Curators also edit other titles, from the Smithsonian History of Aviation and Spaceflight series to children's books on flight. In addition, Museum curators edit book series with Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Centennial of Flight series), Palgrave Macmillan (Palgrave Studies in the History of Science Technology), Texas A&M University Press (Centennial of Flight series), and the University of Missouri Press (Sports and American Culture).
You can explore more peer-reviewed articles, stories, and more with Smithsonian Research Online.
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Flight (Insiders Series)
Available from the UK, ISBN 978 1 84011 736 3, £9.99.
Lighter Than Air: An Illustrated History of Balloons and Airships
This richly illustrated book chronicles lighter-than-air flight from Archimedes' discovery of the principle of buoyancy to the latest in sport balloons and plans for future airships.
Conquistadors of the Sky
Conquistadors of the Sky celebrates the aviation achievements of 21 Latin American nations over the last 100 years, making this chronicle of heroic ventures and epic flights the best reference available on the subject.
Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War (paperback)
Winner of the Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award of the American Astronautical Society, 2008; winner of the Richard W. Leopold Prize of the Organization of American Historians, 2008; winner of a Secretary of the Smithsonian's Research Prize, 2008.
Airplanes: The Life Story of a Technology (paperback)
The invention of the airplane redefined the way in which people travel, conduct commerce, spend their leisure time, and wage war.
Looking at Earth
Looking At Earth was produced as part of the Smithsonian Institution's Columbus Quincentenary program. The book is based on some of the research conducted for the highly successful "Looking At Earth" exhibition at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.
Hubble: Imaging Space and Time
Celebrating the most successful space telescope ever built—and unveiling some of the most provocative views of the universe ever published—this full-color masterwork stands alone in displaying 200 spectacular images shot by the Hubble Space Telescope during its lifetime, to the very eve of its final, critical servicing mission.
Modern Compressible Flow: with Historical Perspective, Third Edition
A publication worked on by members of the National Air and Space Museum staff.
Britain's Airlines, Volume One: 1946-1951
A publication by a member of the National Air and Space Museum staff.
Curtiss Fighter Aircraft: A Photographic History, 1917-1918
A publication by a staff member of the National Air and Space Museum.