The National Air and Space Museum staff write a wide variety of aviation and space publications, including books on 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 Texas A&M University Press and Cambridge University Press.

New Publications

		The Nation's Hangar: Aircraft Treasures of the Smithsonian, by F. Robert van der Linden, photographs by Dane A. Penland, Eric F. Long, Mark A. Avino, Smithsonian Books, 2011, softcover ISBN 978-1588343161, $29.95, 9 x 11 inches, 256 pages. From the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
		Airlines of the Jet Age, A History, by R.E.G. Davies, Smithsonian Institution Press with Rowman & Littlefield, 2011, hardcover ISBN 978-0-9788460-8-4, $99.95, 8.5 x 11 inches, 463 pages.
		Science Fiction and Computing: Essays on Interlinked Domains, edited by David L. Ferro and Eric G. Swedin, McFarland & Company, Inc., 2011, softcover ISBN 978-0-7864-4565-3, $40.00, 6 x 9 inches, 317 pages. Chapter 6, Manned Space Flight and Artificial Intelligence: "Natural" Trajectories of Technology, by Paul E. Ceruzzi
		Only the Wing: Reimar Horten's Epic Quest to Stabilize and Control the All-Wing Aircraft, by Russell E. Lee, Rowman & Littlefield, 2011, hardcover ISBN 978-1-9356230-3-8, $39.95, 6 x 9 inches, 300 pages. Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press with Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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