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).
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Radioisotope Power Systems: An Imperative for Maintaining U.S. Leadership in Space Exploration
Dr. Roger D. Launius, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, is a member of the Radioisotope Power Systems Committee, National Research Council of the National Academies.
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The Legacy of Flight: Images from the Archives of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
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Planetary Tectonics
Cambridge Planetary Science series, No. 11
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Spacesuits: The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Collection
Foreword by Thomas P. Stafford, Introduction by Allan Needell
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Smithsonian Atlas of Space Exploration
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The Museum Educator's Manual: Educators Share Successful Techniques
Part of a series published by AltaMira Press in partnership with the American Association for State and Local History.
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Flight (Insiders Series)
Available from the UK, ISBN 978 1 84011 736 3, £9.99.
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Lighter Than Air: An Illustrated History of Balloons and Airships
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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.
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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.
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