Ask an Expert Lecture Series

Ask an Expert at the National Mall Building

Every Wednesday at noon, a Museum staff member talks to the public about the history, collection, or personalities related to a specific artifact or exhibition in the Museum. Talks typically last 10-15 minutes and begin at the Museum "Great Seal", in the Milestones of Flight gallery on the first floor.

DATE	TITLE	LECTURER (DEPARTMENT)
Aug. 27	Buzz Aldrin, Gene Cernan and the Apollo Moon Suits	Amanda Young (Space History Division)
Sep. 3	Space: A Journey to Our Future	Roger Launius (Space History Division)
Sep. 10	Air Racing During the Golden Age: The Curtiss R3C Racer	Jeremy Kinney (Aeronautics Division)
Sep. 17	The First Military Airplane, ... Almost: The Wrights at Fort Myer in 1908	Peter Jakab (Aeronautics Division)
Sep. 24	Touch Down! Selecting Landing Sites for Mars Rovers	Ross Irwin (Center for Earth and Planetary Studies)
Oct. 1	NASA 50 years later	Michael Neufeld (Space History Division)
Oct. 8	Turn that Plane! Wing Warping and Ailerons	Tom Crouch (Aeronautics Division)
Oct. 15	Mars	Kathryn Fishbaugh (Center for Earth and Planetary Studies)
Oct. 22	Collecting Comet Dust: The Stardust Spacecraft	Roger Launius (Space History Division)
Oct. 29	SpaceShipOne -- Skirting the Edge of Space and then Hanging from our Ceiling Presenter: Samantha Snell

Ask an Expert at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center

Every second and fourth Thursday at 12:30 PM, a Museum staff member talks to the public about the history, collection, or personalities related to a specific artifact or display at the Udvar-Hazy Center. Talks typically last 10-15 minutes and begin at the nose of the SR-71 in the Boeing Aviation Hangar.

DATE	TITLE	LECTURER (DEPARTMENT)
Aug. 28	The Death of the NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics)	Dik Daso (Aeronautics Division)
Sep. 11	Seeing Earth From Space	Jennifer Levasseur (Space History Division)
Sep. 25	FUGO-The Japanese Balloon Bomb Campaign of WW II	Tom Crouch (Aeronautics Division)
Oct. 9	The Poseidon C3 Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile Presenter: Tom Lassman
Oct. 23	Charles A. Lindbergh and the American Consumer: The Stanley King Collection	Dominick Pisano (Aeronautics Division)
Nov. 13	Vought-Sikorsky XR-4C: America's First Military Helicopter	Roger Connor (Aeronautics Division)
Nov. 27	Destroying Enemy Missiles Without Using A Warhead: The SM-3, LEAP, and EKV	James David (Space History Division)
Dec. 11	The Curtiss N-9H: the Naval Jenny	Christopher Moore (Aeronautics Division)
Dec. 18	The TDRS Satellites, Or, how to the Shuttle and other spacecraft "talk" to each other?	Martin Collins (Space History Division)

Curator's Choice Online
Excerpts from previous Curator's Choice lectures (now the Ask An Expert series) for
Apollo 11 Command Module, Lunar Module 2 and Apollo Moon Rocks.