The National Museum of Natural History and National Air and Space Museum on the National Mall will be open today, Tuesday, February 9.
All other Smithsonian Museums, including the Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA, remain closed on Tuesday, February 9.
Some events may be canceled. Call 202-633-2214 for information.
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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 TITLELECTURER (DEPARTMENT)
Feb. 10 Eugene Bullard, the first African American military pilot Dominick Pisano
(Aeronautics Division)
Feb. 17 Transferring V-2 Technology to America Michael Neufeld
(Space History Division)
Feb. 24 GRAB Electronics Intelligence Satellite James David
(Space History Division)
Mar. 3 Wind-Tunnel Calculations: When a ‘Computer’ was a Woman Paul Ceruzzi
(Space History Division)
Mar. 10 From Night Bombing to the Outer Solar System: 60 Years of Imaging Radar Bruce Campbell
(Center for Earth and Planetary Studies)
Mar. 17 Barbara Marx Hubbard and the Rise of Space Advocacy in the 1970s Roger Launius
(Space History Division)
Mar. 24 Aleksei Leonov’s first walk in space Cathleen Lewis
(Space History Division)
Mar. 31 Fledglings by artist Rudolph Dirks Tom Crouch
(Aeronautics Division)
Apr. 7 One World Rising: 1970 and the First “Earth Day” Martin Collins
(Space History Division)
Apr. 14 Memorabilia of a ‘Successful Failure’: Apollo 13 Margaret Weitekamp
(Space History Division)
Apr. 21 COSTAR Valerie Neal
(Space History Division)
Apr. 28 Mars Rovers Update John Grant
(Center for Earth and Planetary Studies)

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 TITLELECTURER (DEPARTMENT)
Feb. 11 The Gemini VIII Thruster Margaret Weitekamp
(Space History Division)
Feb. 25 Oh, the Humanity! Airship Disasters Tom Crouch
(Aeronautics Division)
Mar. 11 Hasselblad: A Staple of Astronaut Photography Jennifer Levasseur
(Space History Division)
Apr. 8 Photographing a Spacewalk: Camera Equipment from Gemini IV Jennifer Levasseur
(Space History Division)
Apr. 22 The P-61's Role in Weather Research
Presenter: Roger Turner
May 13 The Massively-Parallel Processor Paul Ceruzzi
(Space History Division)
Jun. 10 Gettysburg and Golf Courses: Ike Gets a Chopper
Jul. 8 Old but Authentic: Treatment Choices to Preserve or Restore Russell Lee
(Aeronautics Division)
Aug. 12 Mariner 10 and Inner Solar System Exploration Roger Launius
(Space History Division)
Sep. 9 The AES Hard Suits Cathleen Lewis
(Space History Division)
Sep. 23 Thomas Scott Baldwin and his Red Devil Tom Crouch
(Aeronautics Division)
Dec. 9 Two Men in a Hurry: The 1931 Flight of the Winnie Mae Roger Connor
(Aeronautics 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.