Staff Publications and Activities National Air and Space Museum

Aeronautics and Space History Departments Calendar Year 2014

John Anderson Book

X-15: The World’s Fastest Rocket Plane and the Pilots Who Ushered in the Space Age (with Richard Passman), Zenith Press, Jan. 2014.

Invited Presentation

“Breaking the Sound Barrier: The Intellectual Breakthroughs That Made it Possible,” William R. Sears Memorial Lecture, University of Arizona, Tucson, April 10, 2014.

Short Course Taught

“Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics”, Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Brussels, Belgium, Jan. 20-24, 2014.

Paul Ceruzzi

Book

Computing, a Concise History, published in 2012 by MIT Press, has now appeared in a Japanese

edition.

Articles

“Are Historians Failing to Tell the Real Story about the History of Computing?” in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 36/3 (July-September 2014), pp. 94-95

Papers presented at Professional Conferences

“Along the Information Superhighway by Bicycle,” paper presented at the Virginia Forum, George Mason University, March 15, 2014.

“The Global Positioning System (GPS): Military Origins, Civilian Applications, and the Culture of Precise Positioning,” paper presented at the conference on “Embattled Heavens: The Militarization of Space in Science, Fiction, and Politics,” Free University of Berlin, April 10-12, 2014.

Book Reviews

Review of Robert Post, Who Owns America’s Past? The Smithsonian and the Problem of History,

in Quest 21/2 (2014), p. 61.

Review of Thomas J. Misa, Digital State: The Story of Minnesota’s Computing Industry

(University of Minnesota Press, 2014), in Information & Culture (May 2014).

Review of Andrew J. Butrica, The Navigators: A History of NASA’s Deep Space Exploration, in

Quest, 21/4 (2014), p. 60.

Other Scholarly Activity

“Let’s Place Edward Snowden in the Context of History,” electronic post in History News Network

Martin Collins

Book Chapters

“Telstar.” In: Neufeld, Michael J., ed., Milestones of space: eleven iconic objects from the

Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Minneapolis, MN: Zenith Press, pp.20-33.

Papers presented at Professional Conferences

“The Market, the Military, and the Global Post-Cold War World: The Entangled Case of Iridium and Satellite Telephony,” American Historical Association annual meeting, January 2014, Washington DC

Presidential Roundtable: Literature and Technology, Society for History of Technology, November, 2014 (organizer/commentator)

Other Scholarly Activity

History and Technology: An International Journal. Editor. Volume 29, issue 4 (2013)

History and Technology: An International Journal. Editor. Volume 30, issue 1 (2014)

History and Technology: An International Journal. Editor. Volume 30, issue 3 (2014)

Roger Connor Books

Virginia Aviation. Mt. Pleasant, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2014. Conference Papers

“Boardwalk Empire of the Air: Aerial Bootlegging in Prohibition Era America” delivered at the Transportation, Traffic, and Mobility Spinoffs of Mobility: Technology, Risk & Innovation conference at Philadelphia (September 19-21).

Conference Presentations

“Meeting at the Oscilloscope: Wartime Anglo-American Cooperation in Hyperbolic Navigation” presented at the Ideas in movement: the role of conflict and commerce in the history of navigation conference at the Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England (March 21-22).

“The Black Box: Creating Resiliency in Air Transport for Seventy-Seven Years” presented as a keynote plenary presentation with the Digital Avionics Systems Conference’s Designing An Air Transportation System with Multi-Level Resilience in Colorado Springs (October 5-9).

Evelyn Crellin Articles

"Luftwaffe-Flugzeuge des Zweiten Weltkrieges am National Air and Space Museum Washington, DC" [Luftwaffe Aicraft of World War II at NASM in Washington, DC], in: Traditionsgemeinschaft Alte Adler, Rundbrief 2013-2 (fall 2013), pp. 507f.

"Women Sport Pilots and their Contributions to Expansionist Policies in Germany and Great Britain between 1918 and ca. 1935," in Myths and the Military Conquest of Air and Sea (book currently prepared for print)

"Anatomy of an Accident. Hanna Reitsch and Her Flight in the Me 163 on 30 October 1942," presentation given at the 57

th Annual Symposium of the Society of Experimental Pilots (SETP),

25-28 September 2013, Anaheim/CA, published in conference proceedings and podcasts.

"Mellita Schiller-von Stauffenberg zum 100. Geburtstag" [100th birthday of Melitta Schiller von Stauffenberg], in: VDP-Nachrichten 2013 (December 2013), pp. 48-60.

Papers at Professional Conferences

"Unstoppable Ascent. German Gliding and Its Representatives in the Interwar-Years," OSTIV/SSA Convention, Reno/NV, 27 February 2014,

"Restaurierungspolitik und Restaurierungen am National Air and Space Museum: Die Arado 196 A-5," [Restoration policies and restoration projects at NASM: The Arado Ar 196 A-5), Aeronauticum Nordholz/Germany, 17 September 2014, and

"Neues vom National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC: Laufende Restaurierungen" (News from NASM: Current Restoration Projects and Policies), annual meeting of TAA (Traditionsgemeinschaft Alte Adler) Bremen/Germany, 19 September 2014.

Other Scholarly Activity

TV documentary: "Alleinflug – Begleitdokumentation" [Solo Flight - A Companion Documentation], a biography of German woman pilot Elly Beinhorn (1912-2012), ZDF (Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen/Germany), first aired 31 March 2014. [note: My presence in this documentation was based on earlier interviews by ZDF in 2010, before I became a Smithsonian employee]

TV documentary: "My Mother's Life" [working title], a miniseries by Dutch TV that will also include German woman pilot Traute Frank von Hausen-Aubier (1912-1977). Broadcast is planned for 2015.

Lecture: 1st International Symposium of Aviation and Aerospace Museums, Dornier-Museum Friedrichshafen, December 9, 2014: Restoration Policies and Procedures at the National Air and Space Museum

Lecture: Flugwerft Schleissheim/Munich, December 14, 2014: Restoration Policies and Procedures at the National Air and Space Museum

Lecture: Deutsches Museum Munich, December 16, 2014: Restoration Policies and Procedures at the National Air and Space Museum: Between Passive Conservation and Active Restoration

Blogs

AirSpace blog: “Antonie Strassmann - German Movie Star, American Entrepreneur, Cosmopolitan Pilot” (4 April 2014

AirSpace blog: “Restoration News: Heinkel He 219 Night Fighter” (July 2014)

Tom Crouch Chapters in books

“Foreword,” Gordon Murray, Lost in Oscar Hotel: There is Something in the Air (Kent, Ohio: Mirabis Books, 2014), pgs. 1-4.

Articles

“Wheeling and Flying: How the Bicycle Took Wing,” Proceedings of the International Conference on the History of Cycling, Volume 22, 113-122 ( Refereed)

“First Flight Photo,” Air & Space Smithsonian (March 2014), 24-25.

“Jumping Into History,” Air & Space Smithsonian (June/July 2014, Vol. 29, No. 2, pgs. 20-21 Papers

April 6, 2014: An invited keynote lecture on the history of the Engineers Club of Dayton, Ohio in honor of the centennial of that organization

August 7, 2014—“Peddling Across the Sky: Peddle powered airships, 1870-1910,” International Conference on the History of Cycling, Baltimore, Md. Paper accepted for publication.

October 6, 2014: “Making History: A Century of Aerospace Engineering at MIT,” Invited keynote lecture to inaugurate a symposium commemorating a century of aerospace engineering at MIT.

James David

Book Chapter

“The Corona KH-4B Camera,” in Michael J. Neufeld, ed., Milestones of Space (Minneapolis: Zenith Press, 2014), pp. 34-47.

David DeVorkin

Book

Hubble’s Legacy: Reflections by Those Who Dreamed It, Built It, and Observed the Universe with

It. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, August 2014. Co-edited with Roger

Launius. ISBN: 978-1-935623-32-8.

Book Chapters

“The Hubble Space Telescope,” chapter 11 (pp. 159-171) in Michael J. Neufeld, ed., Milestones of Space. Minneapolis: Zenith Press, 2014.

Papers presented at Professional Conferences

“Exploring the Sun from Space” at the Ilan Ramon International Space Conference at the Fisher

Institute in Tel Aviv, Israel

“Charles Abbot’s Search for Sun-Earth Connections” at the American Meteorological Society in

Atlanta

“The Naval Research Laboratory’s Legacy in the Early Space Sciences” at the Naval Research

Laboratory

Book Reviews

Book Review: Leverington, David, An Encyclopedia: Encyclopedia of the History of Astronomy

and Astrophysics. Journal for the History of Astronomy, Volume 45 (2014), Issue 1, pp.130-131

Book Review: Thomas R. Williams and Michael Saladyga. Advancing Variable Star Astronomy:

The Centennial History of the American Association of Variable Star Observers. Xv + 432pp. New

York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Book Review: Minding the Nebulae Omar W. Nasim: Observing by hand: Sketching the nebulae

in the nineteenth century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. In Metascience 23 (on line 24

December 2014)

Other Scholarly Activities

January: AAS – invited session organizer and chair “The Search for Exoplanets from Barnard’s

Star to Kepler”

Edgar Durbin

Book

Picture research for Neufeld, Michael J., ed. Milestones of Space: Eleven Iconic Objects from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Minneapolis: Zenith Press, 2014. 140-157.

Articles

“Navigation, Guidance, and Control of a Saturn Rocket and Its Predecessors (Part 1).” Quest:

The History of Spaceflight Quarterly, 21(1): 48-61.

“Navigation, Guidance, and Control of a Saturn Rocket and Its Predecessors (Part 2).” Quest:

The History of Spaceflight Quarterly, 21(2): 34-44.

Hunter Hollins Book Chapters

Coauthored with Allan Needell, “Lunar Rovers,” Discoveries in Modern Science: Exploration, Invention, Technology. Ed. James Trefil. Vol. 1. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, 2015. VII. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 8 Dec. 2014, pp. 633-635.

Coauthored with Allan Needell, “Lunar Module, LM-2,” Chapter 5 in Milestones of Space: Eleven Iconic Objects from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Michael J. Neufeld, ed.,

Minneapolis: SI/Zenith Press, 2014, pp. 65-77.

Articles

“Science and Military Influences on the Ascent of Aerospace Development in Southern

California,” Southern California Quarterly, December 2014, Vol. 96, No. 4, pp. 373–404.

Coauthored with David DeVorkin, “Satellite: Ariel 2,” Cara McCarty and Matilda McQuaid, Tools: Extending Our Reach, New York: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2014, p. 249.

Book Reviews

Review of “Apollo 13 Owner’s Manual: An Insight into the Development, Events, and Legacy of

NASA’s ‘Successful Failure,’” Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly, 21:2 (2014): 68.

Other Scholarly Activity

Biography of Boris Artzybasheff

Jeremy Kinney Article

Kinney, Jeremy R. “Racing on Runways: The Strategic Air Command and Sports Car Racing in the 1950s.” ICON: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology 19 (2013): 193-215. [publication delayed until 2014]

Papers at Professional Conferences

“Women and Sports Car Racing in the 1950s and 1960s,” Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology, Dearborn, Michigan, November 2014.

“Speeding Through a Man’s World: Women Sports Car Drivers in the 1950s and 1960s,” 2nd

Sport and Society in America Conference, De Pere, Wisconsin, May 2014.

Review

Jeremy R. Kinney. Review of Blue Sky Metropolis: The Aerospace Century in Southern California, edited by Peter J. Westwick. In Technology and Culture 55 (October 2014): 1023-1024.

Thomas Lassman

Book Chapters

“The F-1 Engine,” in Milestones of Space: Eleven Iconic Objects from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, ed. Michael J. Neufeld (Minneapolis: SI/Zenith Press, 2014).

Papers presented at Professional Conferences

“Putting the Military back into the History of the Military Industrial Complex: Managing Technological Innovation in the U.S. Army, 1945-1960,” paper presented at the Colloquium Series, National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C., July 1, 2014.

“Quantity vs. Quality: The Management of Technological Innovation in the U.S. Army, 1945-

1960,” paper presented at the History Speaker Series, Historical Office, Office of the Secretary of

Defense, the Pentagon, October 9, 2014.

Roger Launius

Books

Historical Analogs for the Stimulation of Space Commerce. Washington, DC: NASA SP-2014-4554, 2014. Monographs in Aerospace History, No. 54. ISBN: 978-1-62683-018-9.

Hubble’s Legacy: Reflections by Those Who Dreamed It, Built It, and Observed the Universe with It. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, August 2014. Co-edited with David H. DeVorkin. ISBN: 978-1-935623-32-8.

Book Chapters

“The Viking Lander.” Milestones of Flight: Eleven Iconic Objects from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Edited by Michael J. Neufeld. Minneapolis, MN: Zenith Press, 2014. Pp. 108-23.

“Voyagers 1 and 2.” Milestones of Flight: Eleven Iconic Objects from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Edited by Michael J. Neufeld. Minneapolis, MN: Zenith Press, 2014. Pp. 124-39.

“International Geophysical Year.” Antarctica and the Arctic Circle: A Geographic Encyclopedia of the Earth’s Polar Regions. Edited by Andrew J. Hurd. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2014. Pp. 382-86.

“International Polar Years (IPY).” Antarctica and the Arctic Circle: A Geographic Encyclopedia of the Earth’s Polar Regions. Edited by Andrew J. Hurd. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2014. Pp. 386-90.

“Space Technology and the Rise of the US Surveillance State.” The Surveillance Imperative: Geosciences during the Cold War and Beyond. Edited by Simone Turchetti and Peder Roberts. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. 147-70. Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology.

Articles

“Reacting to Nuclear Power Systems in Space: American Public Protests over Outer Planetary Probes since the 1980s.” Acta Astronautica 96/2 (March–April 2014): 188–200. DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2013.12.004.

“Opposing Apollo: Public Resistance to the Moon Landings.” New Space 2/no. 2 (July 2014): 74-80. DOI: 10.1089/space.2014.0004.

“Realizing the New Aerospace History.” Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 44/2 (April 2014): 187-95. DOI:10.1016/j.actaastro.2013.12.004.

“Project Apollo: NASA, and Technological Versimilitude.” Space Times: The Magazine of the American Astronautical Society 53, No. 2 (March/April 2014): 7-9.

Papers presented at Professional Conferences

“Telling the Story of the Anthropocene, or Not, in Major American History Museums,” “Curating the Anthropocene: A Challenging Discussion” roundtable, American Historical Association annual meeting, Washington, D.C., January 3, 2014.

Moderator and participant, “Writing a New History: Space Shuttle Legacy: How We Did and What We Learned,” AIAA SciTech 2014, Gaylord Conference Center, National Harbor, Maryland, January 14, 2014.

“Establishing Open Rights in the Antarctic and Outer Space,” British Society for the History of Science annual meeting, St. Andrews, Scotland, July 6, 2014.

Other Professional Presentations

“Compelling Rationales for Human Spaceflight,” Space Café, Washington, D.C., February 11, 2014.

“Envisioning the Earth: Conceptions of this Planet from the Flat Earth to Gaia,” Intellectual Discovery and Life Enrichment Forum, Prince of Peace Presbyterian Church, Osaka Grill, Crofton, Maryland, February 20, 2014.

“Looking Backward/Looking Forward: Spaceflight at the Beginning of the New Millennium,” National Council of University Research Administrators, Washington, D.C., April 11, 2014.

“Why Go to the Moon: The Many Faces of Lunar Policy,” AIAA Distinguished Lecture, Ohio State University Student AIAA Section, Columbus, Ohio, April 17, 2014.

“Space: Journeying Toward the Future,” AIAA University of Michigan Distinguished Lecture, University of Michigan Student AIAA Section, Ann Arbor, Michigan, April 22, 2014.

“The Congress and NASA,” The New Congress Seminar, Government Affairs Institute of Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., May 7, 2014.

Book Reviews

Review of Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe, in Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly 21/1 (2014): 64.

Review of Mankind Beyond Earth: The History, Science, and Future of Human Space Exploration, in Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly 21/2 (2014): 66-67.

Review of The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations that Transform the World, in Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly 21/2 (2014): 67.

Review of Overpotential: Fuel Cells, Futurism, and the Making of a Power Panacea, in Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly 21/2 (2014): 60.

Review of Beyond the God Particle, in Space Times: The Magazine of the American Astronautical Society 53, No. 2 (March/April 2014): 16.

Review of A Single Sky: How an International Community Forged the Science of Radio Astronomy, Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly 21/2 (2014): 61.

Review of Beyond the God Particle, Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly 21/2 (2014): 63.

Other Scholarly Activity

Pathways to Exploration: Rationales and Approaches for a U.S. Program of Human Space Exploration. Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2014. ISBN: 978-0-30930-507-5. Member of Public and Stakeholder Opinions Panel.

“Exploring Options,” The Mark News, May 13, 2014,

Russ Lee

Presentations

Gossamer Condor, Ask an Expert talk, April 9.

Panelist, “Technical Study and Conservation of the “Bat Wing Ship” Horten IX V3, 2014 Mutual Concerns of Air and Space Museums, April 14.

Grumman F6F Hellcat, Ask an Expert talk, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, August 14. Blogs

“Horten H IX V3 ‘Bat Wing Ship,’ March 2014 Update,” AirSpace, Behind the Scenes at the National Air and Space Museum.

Coauthored with Anna Weiss and Peter McElhinney, “Horten H IX V3 ‘Bat Wing Ship,’ May 2014 Update,” AirSpace, Behind the Scenes at the National Air and Space Museum.

Other Activities

Chaired team of NASM curators preparing report “Exhibits Beyond 2020 at the National Air and Space Museum,” June 30-September 5.

Jennifer Levasseur

Professional Talk

“An Astronaut-eye View of Our Universe,” Smithsonian Stars Lecture, February 8, 2014. Blogs

“The Unique Flight of Apollo 8,” AirSpace Blog, posted December 21, 2013:

"Seeing Apollo 12," AirSpace Blog, posted November 18, 2014

Cathleen Lewis

Book Chapter

“Neil Armstrong's A7-L Spacesuit” in Neufeld, Michael J., ed. Milestones of Space: Eleven Iconic Objects from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Minneapolis: Zenith Press, 2014, 78-91.

Articles

"What Really Happens When a Spacesuit Fails." Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly 21, no. 2 (2014): 4-10.

"Collecting a Spacesuit in the 21st Century." Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals 10, no. 4 (Fall 2014): 381-92.

Papers presented at Professional Conferences

“Space Spies in the Open: Military Space Stations and Heroic Cosmonauts after the Moon Race Was Lost, 1971-1977,” paper presented at the conference on “Embattled Heavens: The Militarization of Space in Science, Fiction, and Politics,” Free University of Berlin, April 10-12, 2014.

Blogs

"Seeing Inside Neil Armstrong's Spacesuit Using CT Scans."AirSpaceBlog: Behind the Scenes at the National Air and Space Museum.

Why Interstellar Belongs in the Pantheon of the Best "Realistic" Science Fiction Films." In Smithsonian.Com. 6 November 2014. 13 January 2015

Valerie Neal

Book

Discovery: Champion of the Space Shuttle Fleet. Minneapolis: Zenith Press, 2014.

Book Chapter

“Space Shuttle Discovery” in Neufeld, Michael J., ed. Milestones of Space: Eleven Iconic Objects from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Minneapolis: Zenith Press, 2014. 140-157.

Papers presented at Professional Conferences or Talks before Professional Audiences

“Space Transportation: A Rhetoric of Routine, Research, Risk, and Renewal” presented at the Transportation, Traffic, and Mobility (T2M) International Conference at Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, September 19, 2014.

“Space Transportation in Words and Images” invited lecture at Columbus State University and Space Science Center, Columbus, GA, November 13, 2014.

Book Reviews

Three Memoirs from Three Space Shuttle Astronauts: Bernard A. Harris Jr., Winston E. Scott, and José M. Hernández, in Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly 21/4 (2014): 54-55.

Lynn Sherr, Sally Ride: America’s First Woman in Space, in Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly 21/3 (2014): 60-61.

Don Thomas, with Mike Bartell. Orbit of Discovery: The All-Ohio Space Shuttle Mission, in Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly 21/2 (2014): 59.

Blogs

“Orion Test Flight.” AirSpace Blog, posted December 3, 2014.

“Thanksgiving Day in Space.” AirSpace Blog, posted November27, 2014.

“America’s First Spacewalking Woman: Kathryn D. Sullivan.” AirSpace Blog, posted October 11, 2014.

“Remembering Steven R. Nagel.” AirSpace Blog, posted September 4, 2014.

“Discovery’s First Mission Thirty Years Ago.” AirSpace Blog, posted Aug. 30, 2014.

“Discovery’s First Launch: Four Times on the Pad.” AirSpace Blog, posted Aug. 27, 2014.

“Remembering Henry Warren “Hank” Hartsfield, Jr., Discovery’s First Commander.” AirSpace Blog, posted Aug. 7, 2014.

“Skylab is Falling! ” AirSpace Blog, posted July 11, 2014.

“Remembering William Reid “Bill” Pogue: Pilot, Astronaut, Author.” AirSpace Blog, posted March 22, 2014.

“Remembering Dale Allan Gardner: Naval Aviator, Astronaut, Businessman.” AirSpace Blog,

posted March 13, 2014.

“Looking Back, Looking Ahead in January 2014.” AirSpace Blog, posted February 1, 2014.

Allan Needell

Book Chapters

Coauthored with Hunter Hollins, “Lunar Rovers,” Discoveries in Modern Science: Exploration, Invention, Technology. Ed. James Trefil. Vol. 1. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, 2015. VII. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 8 Dec. 2014, pp. 633-635.

Coauthored with Hunter Hollins, “Lunar Module, LM-2,” Chapter 5 in Milestones of Space: Eleven Iconic Objects from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Michael J. Neufeld, ed., Minneapolis: Zenith Press, 2014, pp. 65-77.

Book Reviews

“Social Science, Scientism, and American Democracy” in Reviews in American History, Volume 42, Number 2, June 2014, pp. 360-366

Michael Neufeld

Book

Milestones of Space: Eleven Iconic Objects from the Smithsonian National Air and Space

Museum (Smithsonian/Zenith Press, 2014). Edited by Michael J. Neufeld, with contributions from

curators and fellows in the Space History Division.

Book Chapters and short articles

“Mercury Capsule Friendship 7,” in Michael J. Neufeld, editor, Milestones of Space: Eleven Iconic

Objects from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (Smithsonian/Zenith Press, 2014),

6-19.

Articles

“First Mission to Pluto: Policy, Politics, Science and Technology in the Origins of New Horizons, 1989-2003.” HSNS: Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 44 (2014), 234-276.

“Transforming Solar System Exploration: The Origins of the Discovery Program, 1989-1993.” Space Policy 30 (2014), 5-12.

Papers presented at Professional Conferences

Delivered commentary in the concluding panel, “Reconfigurations,” Freie Universität Berlin,

Germany, “Embattled Heavens” conference, 11 April 2014.

“U.S. Planetary Exploration in the Post-Cold War World,” ICOHTEC (International Committee of

the History of Technology) annual meeting, Brasov, Romania. Also chaired the session “Rocketry

and Spaceflight in the Cold War and After” the talk was given in, 1 Aug. 2014

“Robert Goddard and Wernher von Braun,” at the symposium Goddard, Dreams, Hope & Reality:

Aiming for the Stars, Roswell, NM, 17 Oct. 2014.

Chair and commentator for the session “Users and Mediators,” SHOT (Society for the History of

Technology) Annual Meeting, Dearborn, MI, 8 Nov. 2014.

Other Professional Talks

“First Mission to Pluto: Policy, Politics, Science and Technology in the Origins of New Horizons,

1989-2003,” graduate space science course on New Horizons, University of Central Florida,

Orlando, FL, via teleconference, 20 Feb. 2014.

“The Apollo 8 Mission: First Voyage to the Moon,” Durham Museum, Omaha, NE, 13 Mar. 2014.

“Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War,” University of Nebraska Omaha Medical

Center, 14 Mar. 2014.

“A Short History of the National Air and Space Museum,” undergraduate class, Catholic

University of America, 28 Mar. 2014

“The Making of 2001,” Wolf Trap Pre-Performance Discussion series, before the National

Symphony Orchestra accompanied 2001: A Space Odyssey in the Filene Center, Wolf Trap Farm

Park, 19 July 2014.

Book Reviews

NASA in the World: Fifty Years of International Collaboration in Space. By John Krige, Angelina

Long Callahan and Ashok Maharaj. Technology and Culture 55 (2014). 770-72.

Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America. By Annie Jacobsen. Quest 21 (2014), no. 3, 51-52.

Blogs

“‘Buzz Bomb’: 70th Anniversary of the V-1 Campaign.” AirSpace blog entry on National Air and Space Museum website, June 13, 2014:

“‘Vengeance Weapon 2’: 70th Anniversary of the V-2 Campaign.” AirSpace blog entry on National Air and Space Museum website, Sept. 8, 2014:

Alex Spencer

Articles

Co-Author, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, “Depth Profiling Laminated Glass with a Fiber Optic Probe Customized for Adjustable Working Distance,” 2014

Co-Author, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, “Raman Spectroscopic Characterization of Laminated Glass and Transparent Sheet Plastics to Amplify a History of Early Aviation ‘Glass’,” 2014

Review

Military Aviation in Ireland, 1921-1945, for Irish Economic and Social History, vol. XL, 2013 F. Robert van der Linden Papers presented at Professional Conferences

“Air Crimes and Air Travel: Aviation in the Age of Terrorism,” T2M Conference, Philadelphia, PA, September 19, 2014.

“Creating the Modern Airliner: U.S. Government and Business, 1918-2014,” International Council of Aerospace Sciences (ICAS), St. Petersburg, Russia, September 7, 2014.

Aluminum Alloy and Aircraft Construction: The Making of the Modern Airplane, 1903-1945,” International Council of Museums Committee for Conservation Metal Working Group, in partnership with the Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation and the Lunder Conservation Center, and NASM, April 7, 2014.

Review

H-Net review of Daniel K. Bubb, “Landing in Las Vegas: Commercial Aviation and the Making of a Tourist City,” University of Nevada Press, Reno, 2012.

Blogs

AirSpace blog: “Where’s the ‘R’?,” May 21, 2014

Margaret Weitekamp

Papers presented at Professional Conferences

Panelist, “Aerospace History: Changes in the Field through the Eyes of AHA Aerospace History Fellows,” American Historical Association national meeting, Washington, DC, January 2, 2014

“Men into Space, the Space Race and the Cold War” presented at The Cold War and Entertainment Television conference, Saturday, Université de Paris 8, June 7 2014, Paris, France

Other Professional Talks

Guest Lecture, “Ray Guns, Play Sets, and Board Games: What Space Toys Can Say About the Frontier,” American University course on “Science & Science Fiction in Film,” Professor Monique Laney, April 16, 2014

“The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum and Star Trek,” Shore Leave, A Fan Run Science Fiction Convention, Hunt Valley, Maryland, August 1, 2014

Smithsonian Associates public lecture, “Star Trek’s Never-ending Voyage,” Washington, DC, September 10, 2014

“The Material Culture of the Apollo 11 Goodwill World Tour,” SHOT national conference, Dearborn, Michigan, November 8, 2014

Blogs

AirSpace blog: “My Space Shuttle Memories, A Flickr Slideshow,” June 7, 2014

AirSpace blog: “Advising on the Star Trek Starship Enterprise,” December 30, 2014