Research
Books
Staff members at the National Air and Space Museum write a wide variety of aviation and space publications, including books on exhibitions; the Museum's collection; the history of flight; planetary science; and aerospace science and technology. Books published in 2010:
- The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, An Autobiography, edited by Michael J. Neufeld and Alex M. Spencer, foreword by John Glenn, Jr.; afterword by General John R. Dailey; chapters by Tom D. Crouch; Dik Daso; Ted Maxwell; Dominick Pisano; and Bob van der Linden.
- In the Cockpit II: Inside History-Making Aircraft of World War II, photography by Eric Long and Mark Avino, text by Roger Connor and Christopher Moore, foreword by famed pilot Bob Hoover.
- The Legacy of Flight: Images from the Archives of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, by Museum writer David Romanowski and archivist Melissa A. N. Keiser.
- Globalizing Polar Science: Reconsidering the International Polar and Geophysical Years, edited by Division of Space History senior curators Roger D. Launius and David H. DeVorkin, and James R. Fleming.
- Planetary Tectonics, by Center for Earth and Planetary scientist Tom Watters.
- Fundamentals of Aerodynamics, Fifth Edition, by curator John D. Anderson, Jr.
- Britain's Airlines Volume Three: 1964 to Deregulation, by Museum Aeronautics volunteer Guy Halford-MacLeod.
2010 Reprints
- America's Hangar, Third Edition, by curator Dik Daso.
- Conquistadors of the Sky: A History of Aviation in Latin America (paperback reprint), by former Museum archivist Dan Hagedorn.
View the entire list of books from the National Air and Space Museum.
Photo: The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum: An Autobiography book cover
