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Staff Publications and Scholarly Activities Aeronautics and Space History Departments
Calendar Year 2015 John Anderson
Articles
Riding the Crest: A History of Michigan's Aerospace Engineering Department. AIAA Journal, 53(4): 805-816, doi:10.2514/1.j053112.
Blogs
"The NACA/NASA Full Scale Wind Tunnel." AIRSPACE BLOG: Behind the Scenes at the National Air and Space Museum. http://blog.nasm.si.edu/history/full-scale-wind-tunnel/
Paul Ceruzzi
Book
Andrew K. Johnston, Roger D. Connor, Carlene E. Stephens, and Paul E. Ceruzzi: Time and
Navigation: the Untold Story of Getting from Here to There (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books,
2015).
Articles
Magazine article: “Philadelphia and the Birth of the Computer Age,” The Historical Society of Philadelphia, Legacies, Spring 2015, pp. 26-30.
Papers presented at Professional Conferences
“The Global Positioning System: Military Origins, Civilian Applications, and the Culture of Precise Positioning,” presented at the 56th annual meeting of the International Studies Association, New Orleans, February 18, 2015.
Book Reviews
Review of John Anderson and Richard Passman, X-15:the World’s Fastest Rocket Plane and the Pilots who Ushered in the Space Age, in Quest, vol. 22 number 1 (2015), p. 64.
Review of Paul Atkinson, Delete: A Design History of Vapourware, In Technology & Culture, 56 (2015): pp. 1013-1015.
Blogs
“Reflections on Pi Day, March 14” Air and Space blog, March 14, 2015. http://blog.nasm.si.edu/stories/pi-day/.
“Where’s My Flying Car?” Air and Space blog, April 14, 2015, http://blog.nasm.si.edu/aviation/wheres-my-flying-car/.
“Did the Brooklyn Dodgers Help Get us to the Moon?” Air and Space blog, May 12, 2015. http://blog.nasm.si.edu/space/dodgers-and-the-moon/.
“Star Trek Considered Harmful.” Air and Space blog, June 5, 2015. http://blog.nasm.si.edu/space/star-trek-considered-harmful/
Pioneer Carries Message Across the Stars, Air and Space blog September 2, 2015: http://blog.nasm.si.edu/space/pioneer-carries-message-across-the-stars/.
“Apollo Guidance Computer and the First Silicon Chips,” Air & Space Blog, October 14, 2015: http://blog.nasm.si.edu/space/first-silicon-chips/
Dorothy Cochrane
Blogs "Snapshots of Women, and Men, in the Aerospace Industry." AIRSPACE BLOG: Behind the Scenes at the National Air and Space Museum. http://blog.nasm.si.edu/aviation/women-in-the-aerospace-industry/ "The New Air Show in Town: Aerobatic Flight!" AIRSPACE BLOG: Behind the Scenes at the National Air and Space Museum. http://blog.nasm.si.edu/aviation/aerobatic-flight/
Martin Collins
Articles
“Introduction: Adelheid Voskuhl’s Androids in the Enlightenment: Mechanics, Artisans, and
Cultures of the Self,” History and Technology: An International Journal Vol 30, no 4 (2015): 252-
54.
Papers presented at Professional Conferences
“The Corporation Ascendant: Iridium’s Global Satellite Telephone System and the Post-Cold War World,” International Studies Association, February 2015
“What do historians want from “Materiality”? Reflections on Theory and the Humanities since the 1970s”, Max Planck Institute for History of Science, Berlin, March 2015
“Following a Multinational Corporation through the 1990s: Globalization, Markets, Ideology, Power and Other Travelogue Conundrums,” University of Aalto, Helsinki, March 2015
“Materiality and New Materialism Roundtable”, University of Aalto, Helsinki, March 2015
“Globalization after 1980 as a Historical Problem,” Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, March 2015
Organizer, Symposium “What was anti-humanism?”, Potomac Center for the Study of Modernity, April 2015
Blogs
“Arthur C. Clarke’s Personal Papers Arrive at the Museum,” April 20, 2015,
http://blog.nasm.si.edu/highlights-from-the-collection/clarkes-personal-papers/. Other Scholarly Activity
History and Technology: An International Journal. Editor. Volume 30, issue 4 (2014)
History and Technology: An International Journal. Editor. Volume 31, issue 1 (2015)
History and Technology: An International Journal. Editor. Volume 31, issue 2 (2015)
Roger Connor
Connor, Roger 2015. Flight Data Recorder F1000 (“Black Box”). In: McCarty, Cara and McQuaid, Matilda, Tools: Extending Our Reach. New York: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, pp. 102.
Connor, Roger A. 2015. This Drone Can Save Your Life. Air & Space Smithsonian, 20-21.
Presentations: “The History of Drones in Film Making” at the “Lights! Drones! Action! Symposium co-hosted by the U.S. House of Representatives Entertainment Caucus and the D.C.
“From Queen Bee to Drone Revolution,” an evening lecture presented at the College Park Aviation
Museum, May 2015.
Researched and wrote a web essay for the Center for the Study of the Drone on the X-47B
(http://dronecenter.bard.edu/chronicle-of-the-salty-dogs-x-47b/).
Blogs
"Remembering Marat N. Tishchenko." AIRSPACE BLOG: Behind the Scenes at the National Air and Space Museum. http://blog.nasm.si.edu/new-events/remembering-tishchenko/
"Phrog Farewell." AIRSPACE BLOG: Behind the Scenes at the National Air and Space Museum. http://blog.nasm.si.edu/aviation/phrog-farewell/
"Halloween Horrors of the Air: 13 Terrifying Images of Aero Fashion." AIRSPACE BLOG: Behind the Scenes at the National Air and Space Museum. http://blog.nasm.si.edu/aviation/halloween-
horrors-of-the-air/
Connor, Roger 2015. "The Tizard Mission – 75 Years of Anglo-American Technical Alliance." AIRSPACE BLOG: Behind the Scenes at the National Air and Space Museum. http://blog.nasm.si.edu/aviation/the-tizard-mission/
Evelyn Crellin Papers presented at Professional Conferences
- Society for the History of Technology, Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 2015, Panel: Axis in the Air. German-Japanese Aviation Collaboration, 1920 – 1945. Paper Title: In Search of the Big Market for a Tiny Aircraft: Two Flights in Junkers A 50 to Japan, 1930 and 1931
Other Publications
- Excerpts of published dissertation „Schneidige deutsche Mädel“ were accepted for publication in a
German high school textbook (Kreative Ideenbörse Deutsch Sekundarstufe 2, Ausgabe 68 [02/2015],
published by Olzog-Verlag Munich/Germany).
Other Scholarly Activity
- member of the board of Deutsches Museum Munich publication series: Deutsches Museum Studies
- interviewed for documentary on German woman pilot Thea Rasche, by Westdeutscher Rundfunk
(WDR), Germany, Nov 2015
Crellin, Evelyn 2015. "Heinkel Night Fighter He 219: Wing Painting Complete." AIRSPACE BLOG: Behind the Scenes at the National Air and Space Museum. http://blog.nasm.si.edu/restoration/heinkel-wing-paint/ Crellin, Evelyn 2015. "Three Pilots – One War: Commemorating World War I." AIRSPACE BLOG: Behind the Scenes at the National Air and Space Museum. http://blog.nasm.si.edu/aviation/three-pilots-one-war/ Crellin, Evelyn 2015. Restaurierungspolitik am NASM - Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC [Restoration Policies at NASM], DGLR-Mitteilungen [Notes of the German Society for Aviation and Space Research], (3):38-42. Crellin, Evelyn 2015. Moritz, der Segelfliegende Kobold: Zum 70. Todestag der Fliegerin Eva Schmidt (1914–1945) [Moritz, the Gliding Imp: Life of German Woman Glider Pilot Eva Schmidt (1914-1945). VDP-Nachrichten [Association of German Women Pilots – News], 2015/2016 :32-34.
Tom Crouch
Crouch, Tom D. 2015. "Fans of the National Air and Space Museum." AIRSPACE BLOG: Behind the Scenes at the National Air and Space Museum. http://blog.nasm.si.edu/history/fans-of-the-museum/ Crouch, Tom D. 2015. Pedaling Across the Sky: Hand-cranked and Pedal-Powered Airships, 1875-1909. Proceedings of the 25th International Cycle History Conference, 25: 61-69. Crouch, Tom D. 2015. What Was the Most Significant Airplane Flight in History? The Atlantic, 316(1):108. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/07/most-significant-airplane-flight-in-history/395336/ Crouch, Tom D. 2015. [Review]: Blaming Wilbur and Orville - The Wright Company: From Invention to Industry, by Edward J. Roach. Business History Review, 89(2): 339-343. doi:10.1017/S0007680515000392. Crouch, Tom D. 2015. [Review]: Blaming Wilbur and Orville- Birdmen: The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies, by Lawrence Goldstone. Business History Review, 89(2): 339-343. doi:10.1017/S0007680515000392. Crouch, Tom D. 2015. [Review]: No Requiem for the Space Age: The Apollo Landings and American Culture, by Matthew D. Tribbe. Journal of American History, 102(1): 299-300.
Articles: "From Bicycles to Human Powered Flight," Cycle History 25: Proceedings of the 25t h annual Cycling History Conference (Cheltenham, England: Cycling History, 2015) p. 60-70. “What Was the Most Significant Airplane Flight in History?” The Atlantic (July/August 2015, Vol. 316, No. 1), p. 108. “High Fliers,” Air & Space Smithsonian June-July 2015, Vol. 30, No. 2), 2. “Momentos of the First Flights,” Air & Space Smithsonian (September 2015, Vol. 30, No. 4), pp. 16-17.
“Neil Armstrong,” biographical entry in American National Biography (Oxford University Press): http://www.anb.org/articles/13/13-02689.html?a=1&n=armstrong%2C%20neil&ia=-at&ib=-bib&d=10&ss=0&q=1 Reviews: Review: Matthew D. Tribbe, No Requiem for the Space Age: The Apollo Landings and American Culture, in, Journal of American History (2015) Vol. 102, No. 1, 299-300. http://jah.oxfordjournals.org/content/102/1/299.2.full “Review Essay: Blaming Wilbur and Orville,” Business History Review / Volume 89 / Issue 02 / Summer 2015, pp 339 – 343 Blogs:
“Remembering Astronautics and Museum Leader Frederick Clark Durant III,” Air Space,
http://blog.nasm.si.edu/?s=crouch
“Fans of the NASM” Air Space, http://blog.nasm.si.edu/history/fans-of-the-museum/
“A New High Altitude Jump,” Air Space, http://blog.nasm.si.edu/new-events/a-new-high-altitude-jump/
“The Big Jump,” Air Space, http://blog.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/the-big-jump/
Papers Presented at Major Scholarly Conferences
“Founding Father: Charles Doolittle Walcott and the Birth of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1910-1915,” March 3-4, 2015
James E. David
Book
James E. David, Spies and Shuttles: NASA’s Secret Relationships with the DoD and CIA (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2015).
Book Chapters
Articles
Electronic Briefing Book, NASA’s Secret Relationships with U.S. Defense and Intelligence
Agencies, posted on the National Security Archive website on April 10
Papers presented at Professional Conferences
Works-in-Progress series, NASM, July 14, “NASA’s TDRSS and the NRO’s Satellite Data
System: Any Connections?”
Book Reviews
Blogs
Other Scholarly Activity
David H. DeVorkin
Books
DeVorkin, David H. and Smith, Robert W. 2015. The Hubble Cosmos: 25 Years of New Vistas in Space Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 224 pages.
Book Chapters
DeVorkin, David H. 2015. “Rate of Formation of Stars Suitable for the Development of Intelligent Life, R*, pre-1961.” In: Vakoch, Douglas A. and Dowd, Matthew F., The Drake Equation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.21-37.
DeVorkin, David H. and Hollins, Hunter. 2015. Satellite Aerial 2 (Replica). In: McCarty, Cara and McQuaid, Matilda, Tools: Extending Our Reach. New York: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, pp.248-249.
Articles
Papers presented at Professional Conferences
“The William Ellery Hale Lectures at the National Academy of Sciences, 1914-1918,” American
Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #225 (January 2015), #91.04
Book Reviews
DeVorkin, David H. 2015. Minding the Nebulae. Metascience, 24(2): 223-226.
doi:10.1007/s11016-014-9974-8
DeVorkin, David H. 2015. [Review]: Stratonauts: Pioneers Venturing into the Stratosphere, by
Manfred "Dutch" von Ehrenfried. Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly, 22(1): 57
DeVorkin, David H. 2015. [Review]: The Asteroid Threat: Defending Our Planet from Deadly Near
Earth Objects, by William E. Burrows. Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly, 22(2): 60.
DeVorkin, David H. 2015 [Review]: From Jars to the Stars: How Ball Came to Build a Comet-
Hunting Machine, by Todd Neff. Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly, 22 (3): 63.
Blogs
DeVorkin, David H. 2015. "Finding Pluto With the Blink Comparator."AIRSPACE BLOG: Behind
the Scenes at the National Air and Space Museum. May 14, 2015
Other Scholarly Activities
American Astronomical Meeting Session organizer: 114 HAD IV: “Preserving the Material Legacy
of the American Observatory Movement,” January 2015.
International Astronomical Union Session organizer: "The Development of Mauna Kea as an
Astronomical Site" (moderated panel discussion). August 2015.
Lowell Observatory Advisory Board (2010 - ).
Hunter Hollins
Articles
“The War Bond Poster: State Fundraising and National Cohesion Through Mass Media During
the World Wars,” Federal History Journal, January 2015, Issue 7, pp. 35-52.
Hollins, Hunter and Needell, Allan A. 2015. Lunar Rovers. In: Trefil, James, Discoveries in Modern Science: Exploration, Invention, Technology. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference, pp.633-635. ISBN-13: 9780028662442 ISBN-10: 002866244X
Papers presented at Professional Conferences
Attended SHOT in Albuquerque, presented at Graduate Student Workshop
Book Reviews
Review of “Rockets & Revolution: A Cultural History of Early Spaceflight,’” Quest: The History of
Spaceflight Quarterly, 22:2 (2015): 58.
Hollins, Hunter 2015. [Review]: The Road to Modern Rocketry: Launch Bases, Centers, Museums, Memorials, and Monuments, by Doug Gangler. Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly, 22(4): 64.
Peter Jakab
Jakab, Peter L. 2015. "Bringing History to Life: Honoring Our World War II Veterans." AIRSPACE BLOG: Behind the Scenes at the National Air and Space Museum.
http://blog.nasm.si.edu/aviation/ww2flyover/ Jakab, Peter L. 2015. [Review]: The Wright Company: From Invention to Industry, by Edward J. Roach. Indiana Magazine of History, 111(2): 200-201.
Layne Karafantis
Book
Book Chapters
Articles Papers presented at Professional Conferences
Book Reviews
Other Scholarly Activity
Chair, “Tinkering with Technology” panel at the SHOT Annual Conference in Albuquerque, NM, October 2015.
Presenter, “NASA’s Mission Control Center: The Space Program’s Capitol as Innovative Capital,” at workshop for Seeds of Discovery: an Economic History of NASA, forthcoming 2016.
Wrote aviation-related text for NASM’s Mobile Mission Application. Blogs
“Bridge of Spies: An Opportunity to Bust Myths about the U-2 and the Capture of Gary Powers,” October 27, 2015. http://blog.nasm.si.edu/aviation/busting-u2-myths/
Jeremy Kinney Papers presented at Professional Conferences
“The British Sports Car and American Leisure, 1945-1985,” The Cultures and Politics of Leisure in the British Isles and the United States Symposium, the Sorbonne, Paris, France, November 2015.
“The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the Airplane Propeller, and World War II,” The NACA Centenary: A Symposium on 100 Years of Aerospace Research and Development, Washington, D.C., March 2015.
Other Scholarly Presentations
“Blades for Victory: Pittsburgh, Propellers, and the Arsenal of Democracy,” Heinz History Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 25, 2015.
Other Scholarly Activity
Jeremy Kinney, “A Brief History of Flak-Bait” on the Museum YouTube Channel, November 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHyJrucsn7M&feature=youtu.be
Adjunct Faculty, History and Art History Department, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia; teaching undergraduate course on aviation history from its origins to the present day.
Kinney, Jeremy R. 2015. "70 Years Ago: Flak-Bait’s 200th Mission." AIRSPACE BLOG: Behind the Scenes at the National Air and Space Museum. http://blog.nasm.si.edu/aviation/flak-baits-200th-mission/
Kinney, Jeremy R. 2015. "Fear and Concealment: Military Aircraft Disguises and Transformations." AIRSPACE BLOG: Behind the Scenes at the National Air and Space Museum. http://blog.nasm.si.edu/aviation/aircraft-disguises-and-transformations/
Book Reviews
Jeremy R. Kinney. Review of The Bombers and the Bombed: Allied Air War over Europe, 1940-
1945, by Richard Overy. In Journal of American History 102 (June 2015): 285-286.
Thomas Lassman
Articles
“Putting the Military Back into the History of the Military-Industrial Complex: The Management of
Technological Innovation in the U.S. Army, 1945-1960,” Isis 106 (March 2015): pp. 94-120.
Roger D. Launius
Articles
“Space Science: Beyond the Heliopause.” Nature Volume: 519 (March 5, 2015): 30–31. DOI: DOI:10.1038/519030a.
“Apollo 13: You Can’t Make this Stuff Up.” TCM Classic Film Festival, Hollywood 2015. Atlanta, GA: Turner Entertainment Networks, Inc., 2015), pp. 32-38.
Papers presented at Professional Conferences
“NACA Leadership and the Challenge of Building a World Class Aeronautics R&D Organization,” AIAA Scitech 2015, Gaylord Palms and Convention Center, Kissimmee, FL, January 6, 2015.
“What is the NACA Model of Research and Development? Reflections on a Century of Flight,” The NACA Centenary: A Symposium on 100 Years of Aerospace Research and Development, National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C., March 3, 2015
Panelist on “Humans to Mars Public Perceptions,” Humans Orbiting Mars Workshop, George Washington University Space Policy Institute, Washington, D.C., April 1, 2015.
“Redneck Rocketeers: Project Apollo and the American South,” Keynote Lecture, Leadership Alabama, Huntsville, Alabama, April 13, 2012.
“Historical Perspectives on Pioneering Space,” AIAA Space 2015, Pasadena Hilton, Pasadena, California, September 2, 2015.
“‘We will learn more about the Earth by leaving it than by remaining on it’: NASA and the Unintended Forming of an Earth Science Discipline in the 1960s,” in “Satellite Remote-sensing and Environment” Session, Society for the History of Technology annual meeting, Albuquerque, N.M., October 9, 2015.
Chair, “The Meaning of Failure in Early Drone R&D” session, Society for the History of Technology annual meeting, Albuquerque, N.M., October 9, 2015.
“Mining the Skies: A History of the Future?” Off Earth Mining Forum, Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research (ACSER), Sydney, Australia, SKYPE Presentation, November 4, 2015.
Chair, “Imagining Science and Technology in the Shadow of the Cold War,” History of Science Society session, San Francisco, California, November 21, 2015.
Other Professional Presentations
“What is the NACA Model of Research and Development? Reflections on a Century of Flight,” A Celebration of the Centennial of NACA, Virginia Air and Space Center, Hampton, Virginia, March 24, 2015.
“The State of the Museum,” Docent Training, NASM, Washington, D.C., May 11, 2015.
“What is the NACA Model of Research and Development? Reflections on a Century of Flight,” AFRC Seminar, Armstrong Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, July 29, 2015.
“What We did Wrong” Presentation, Smithsonian Emerging Leaders Development Program,” NASM, Washington, D.C., August 11, 2015.
“Ike, Sputnik, and the Early Space Race,’ keynote presentation to Dwight D. Eisenhower Society (DDES), Dobbin House, Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania, October 17, 2015.
“Pretty Blue Planet,” class presentation, “Global History of Spaceflight,” New York University-Shanghai, Shanghai, China, October 28, 2015.
“Humans vs. Robots in Space,” New York University-Shanghai, Shanghai, China, October 29, 2015.
“Historical Perspectives on Pioneering Space,” NASA Chief Safety & Mission Assurance Officer Summit Event, NASA Safety Center, Cleveland, Ohio, November 3, 2015.
“The Strange Career of the American Spaceplane: NASA and the Quest for Routine Human Space Operations,” Joe Sutter Black Tie Dinner, RAeS Seattle Branch, Seattle, Washington, November 14, 2015.
“Humans in Space,” Rotary Club, Waterville, Maine, November 30, 2015.
“Looking Backward/Looking Forward: Spaceflight in the New Millennium,” Goldfarb Center Lecture, Colby College, Waterville, Maine, December 1, 2015.
Book Reviews
Review of GPS Declassified: From Smart Bombs to Smartphones, in Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly 22/1 (2015): 59.
Review of Reinterpreting Exploration: The West in the World, in Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly 22/1 (2015): 63.
Review of Final Frontier: The Pioneering Science and Technology of Exploring the Universe, in Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly 22/2 (2015): 63.
Review of Selling War in a Media Age: The Presidency and Public Opinion in the American Century, in Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly 22/3 (2015): 61.
Review of War Stars: The Superweapon and the American Imagination, in Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly 22/3 (2015): 62.
Review of Dreams of Other Worlds: The Amazing Story of Unmanned Space Exploration, in Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly 22/3 (2015): 64.
Other Scholarly Activity
Four entries for Discoveries in Modern Science: Exploration, Invention, Technology. James Trefil. Editor. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference, 2015. ISBN-13: 978-0028662442. Three volumes.
o “Early Space Flight, pp. 263-68. o “Explorers 1 and 3 and the Van Allen Radiation Belts,” pp. 354-56. o “Sputnik,” pp. 1044-46. o “Stardust Mission,” pp. 1050-52.
Russell Lee
Lee, Russell E. 2015. "Horten Ho 229 V3 "Bat-Wing Ship", January 2015 Update." AIRSPACE BLOG: Behind the Scenes at the National Air and Space Museum. http://blog.nasm.si.edu/behind-the-scenes/horten-january-2015-update/ Lee, Russell E. and Crellin, Evelyn 2015. "Lippisch DM 1 Reconsidered - Part 1." AIRSPACE BLOG: Behind the Scenes at the National Air and Space Museum. http://blog.nasm.si.edu/aviation/lippisch-dm-1-part-1/ Lee, Russell E. and Crellin, Evelyn 2015. "Lippisch DM 1 Reconsidered - Part 2." AIRSPACE BLOG: Behind the Scenes at the National Air and Space Museum. http://blog.nasm.si.edu/aviation/lippisch-dm-1-part-2/ Lee, Russell E. and Crellin, Evelyn 2015. "Lippisch DM 1 Reconsidered - Part 3." AIRSPACE BLOG: Behind the Scenes at the National Air and Space Museum. http://blog.nasm.si.edu/aviation/lippisch-dm-1-part-3/
Lee, Russell E. and Crellin, Evelyn 2015. "Lippisch DM 1 Reconsidered - Part 4." AIRSPACE BLOG:
Behind the Scenes at the National Air and Space Museum. http://blog.nasm.si.edu/aviation/lippisch-dm-1-
part-4/
Jennifer Levasseur
Book Book Chapters Articles Papers Presented at Professional Conferences
“The Astronaut Selfie: Part of a Fad or Part of Tradition?” Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA) meeting, Philadelphia, PA, November 5, 2016.
Participant in a session on digital transformations in exhibition development as seen in the Outside the Spacecraft exhibition, Museum Computer Network (MCN), Minneapolis, MN, November 7, 2015.
Book Reviews
Review of “Curiosity: An Inside Look at the Mars Rover Mission and the People Who Made It Happen,’” Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly, 22:2 (2015): 64.
Blogs
“And Then the Curator Asks, “What’s a Tumblr?”” AIRSPACE BLOG: Behind the Scenes at the National Air and Space Museum. 31 March 2015. http://blog.nasm.si.edu/behind-the-scenes/whats-a-tumblr/
"Five Things I Learned While Curating Outside the Spacecraft: 50 Years of Extra-Vehicular Activity." AIRSPACE BLOG: Behind the Scenes at the National Air and Space Museum. 27 January 2015. http://blog.nasm.si.edu/behind-the-scenes/lessons-from-a-curator/
“Seeing Apollo 12.” AIRSPACE BLOG: Behind the Scenes at the National Air and Space Museum. 19 November 2014. http://blog.nasm.si.edu/history/television-and-apollo-12/
"Walking in Space: Our Favorite Facts about the First U.S. Spacewalk." AIRSPACE BLOG: Behind the Scenes at the National Air and Space Museum. http://blog.nasm.si.edu/space/walking-in-space-our-favorite-facts/
Cathleen S Lewis
Book Chapters
"Gloves: Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) Military Hamilton, Version 7 (MH-7)." In Tools: Extending Our Reach, ed. Cara McCarty and Matilda McQuaid, 24-25. New York: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2014.
"Mark V Pressure Suit (Developmental)." In Tools: Extending Our Reach, ed. Cara McCarty and Matilda McQuaid, 124-25. New York: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2014.
Articles Papers presented at Professional Conferences
"Baikonur, Tyuratam and Longue Durée History." In NASM Works in Progress. Washington, D.C., 11 August, 2015.
"Pavel Klushantsev and His Attempt to Resuscitate Russian Science Fiction Film After Stalin." In Science Fiction and Fantasy (Leitch and, chair Leitch and Ginn. Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. New Orleans, Louisiana, 1 April, 2015.
Book Reviews
Blogs
"Zvezda Service Module Celebrates 15 Years in Orbit." In AirSpaceBlog: Behind the Scenes at
the National Air and Space Museum. 19 August 2015. Smithsonian National Air and Space
Museum. 19 August 2015 <http://blog.nasm.si.edu/space/zvezda-celebrates-15-years/>.
"What Does Alan Shepard’s Mercury Suit Have to Do with Neil Armstrong’s Apollo 11 Suit?" In
AirSpaceBlog: Behind the Scenes at the National Air and Space Museum. 12 August 2015.
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. 12 August, 2015
<http://blog.nasm.si.edu/space/shepard-and-armstrong/>.
"How Do You Put on an Apollo Spacesuit?" In AirSpaceBlog: Behind the Scenes at the National
Air and Space Museum. 7 August 2015. Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. 12 August
2015 <http://blog.nasm.si.edu/space/how-to-put-on-a-spacesuit/>.
"Reboot the Suit: Neil Armstrong’s Spacesuit and Kickstarter." In AirSpaceBlog: Behind the
Scenes at the National Air and Space Museum. 20 July 2015. Smithsonian National Air and
Space Museum. 12 August 2015 <http://blog.nasm.si.edu/behind-the-scenes/reboot-the-suit/>.
"How Two Cold War Spacewalks Came to a Common Technological Solution." In AirSpaceBlog:
Behind the Scenes at the National Air and Space Museum. 18 March 2015. 18 March 2015
<http://blog.nasm.si.edu/space/spacewalk-tech/>.
"Happy Birthday to the World’s First Woman in Space." AIRSPACE BLOG: Behind the Scenes at
the National Air and Space Museum. 6 March 2015. Accessed March 11, 2015.
http://blog.nasm.si.edu/space/valentina-tershkova/
"Vance Marchbanks’ Contribution to Public Health Policy on Sickle Cell Disease." In
AirSpaceBlog: Behind the Scenes at the National Air and Space Museum. 27 February 2015. 02
March 2015 http://blog.nasm.si.edu/history/vance-marchbanks/.
"Hands and Gloves in Space." 8 January 2015. Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. 12
January 2015. http://blog.nasm.si.edu/space/hands-and-gloves-in-space/.
Valerie Neal
Book
Book Chapters
“Mechanical Finger Tool from Skylab” in McCarty, Cara and Matilda McQuaid, eds. Tools:
Extending Our Reach. (exhibition catalog) New York: Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, 2014. 56-
57.
Articles Papers presented at Professional Conferences or Talks before Professional Audiences
Book Reviews
Blogs
“Coming Soon: Discovery 3D! AirSpaceBlog: Behind the Scenes at the National Air and Space
Museum. March 25, 2015. http://blog.nasm.si.edu/behind-the-scenes/coming-soon-discovery-3d/.
Neal, Valerie. 2015. "A Surprise Call From Space." AIRSPACE BLOG: Behind the Scenes at the National Air and Space Museum. http://blog.nasm.si.edu/behind-the-scenes/a-surprise-call-from-space/
Allan A. Needell Book
Book Chapters Needell, Allan A. 2015. “Skylab Tool Kit #2”. In: McCarty, Cara and McQuaid, Matilda, Tools: Extending Our Reach. New York: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, pp.214-215. Articles Papers presented at Professional Conferences “A 50 State Tour and the Origins of the National Apollo 11 Artifacts Collection.” Presentation at ARTEFACTS XX, Scientific Heritage at World Exhibitions and Beyond. Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, Milan, September 20-22, 2015 Book Reviews Blogs Needell, Allan A. 2015. "The Armstrong Purse: Flown Apollo 11 Lunar Artifacts."AIRSPACE BLOG: Behind the Scenes at the National Air and Space Museum. http://blog.nasm.si.edu/highlights-from-the-collection/the-armstrong-purse/
Needell, Allan A. 2015. "Transcribing Apollo Stowage Lists with Help from Volunteers." AIRSPACE BLOG: Behind the Scenes at the National Air and Space Museum. http://blog.nasm.si.edu/space/transcribing-apollo-stowage-lists/
Michael Neufeld
Books
Short articles
“Turning Our Backs on Space,” The Washington Post, February 10, 2015, A15 (op-ed page);
published online as “Our waning interest in exploring the solar system,”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/our-waning-interest-in-exploring-the-solar-
system/2015/02/09/b704c9d0-b07c-11e4-854b-a38d13486ba1_story.html.
Book Chapters and Articles
“Practicing for Space Underwater: Inventing Neutral Buoyancy Training 1963-1968.” Co-authored with John B. Charles. Endeavour 39 (Dec. 2015), pp. 147-59.
Papers presented at Professional Conferences
The NACA Centenary: A Symposium, Washington, DC, March 4, 2015. Chair of the session “Key
Aspects of NACA Research.”
Works-in-Progress series, NASM, April 14, 2015. “Practicing for Space Underwater: Inventing
Neutral Buoyancy Training, 1963-1968.”
International Congress of the Historical Sciences, Jinan, China, August 26, 2015. “The Global
Proliferation of German Rocket Technology after World War II.”
66th International Astronautical Congress, Jerusalem, Israel, “The Invention and Diffusion of
Neutral Buoyancy Training,” Oct. 15, 2015.
Other Professional Talks
“A Short History of the National Air and Space Museum,” in the “Washington 101” class at the
Catholic University of America, Feb. 13, 2015.
Hosted “What’s New in Aerospace?” program in Moving Beyond Earth gallery and on NASA TV
and lectured on “Training Underwater for Walking in Space.” March 2015.
Hosted “What’s New in Aerospace?” program in Moving Beyond Earth and on NASA TV about New Horizons’ flyby of Pluto, July 15, 2015.
Hosted “What’s New in Aerospace?” program in Moving Beyond Earth, “New Horizons @ Pluto”
presented by Alan Stern. Sept. 2015
Book Reviews
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America. By Annie Jacobsen. Quest 21 (2014), no. 3, 51-52. Republished in The Space Review, 15 June 2015, http://thespacereview.com/article/2769/1.
No Requiem for the Space Age: The Apollo Moon Landings and American Culture. By Matthew D. Tribbe. Quest 22 (2015), no. 2, 59.
The Rocket into Planetary Space. By Hermann Oberth. Translated by Trevor C. Sorensen, Joachim Kehr, Michael L. Ciancone, Peter A. Englert, Lars Oliefka, Rick W. Sturdevant and Joni Wilson. Quest 22 (2015), no. 2, 61.
The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler’s Men. By Eric Lichtblau. Quest 22 (2015), no. 2, 62. Republished in The Space Review, 29 June 2015, http://thespacereview.com/article/2777/1.
Exploration and Engineering: The Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Quest for Mars. By Erik M. Conway. Quest 22 (2015), no. 2, 60-61.
After Apollo? Richard Nixon and the American Space Program. By John M. Logsdon. Quest 22 (2015), no. 4, 62-63.
Blogs
“Remembering Milton W. Rosen,” AirSpace blog, January 30, 2015: http://blog.nasm.si.edu/new-events/remembering-milton-w-rosen/.
“First Mission to Pluto: The Difficult Birth of New Horizons,” AirSpace blog, July 10, 2015: http://blog.nasm.si.edu/space/first-mission-to-pluto/.
Carolyn Russo Book:
Carolyn J. Russo: Art of the Airport Tower (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books, 2015).
Exhibitions:
Carolyn J. Russo: Art of the Airport Tower (Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum,
Washington, DC November 2015 – November 2016).
Carolyn J. Russo: In Plane View (Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum, McMinnville, Oregon
February – May, 2015) Matthew Shindell
Shindell, Matt 2015. "Remembering Robert Willard Farquhar." AIRSPACE BLOG: Behind the Scenes at the National Air and Space Museum. http://blog.nasm.si.edu/new-events/remembering-robert-w-farquhar/
Alex Spencer
Spencer, Alex M. 2015. Escape Map (Double-sided): C-52 Japan and South China Seas and C-53 East China Seas. In: McCarty, Cara and McQuaid, Matilda, Tools: Extending Our Reach. New York: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, pp. 148-149.
Margaret A. Weitekamp Book Book Chapters Articles
“‘We’re Physicists’: Genre, Gender, and the Image of Scientists in The Big Bang Theory,” Journal of Popular Television 3(1): 75-92.
Papers presented at Professional Conferences
“Culture Wars in Space: Babylon 5, Deep Space Nine, and the Meaning of the Past,” at PCA-ACA national conference, New Orleans, April 1, 2015.
“Space Stations on a Changing Frontier: Race, Gender, and Space Science Fiction,” History of Science Society annual meeting, San Francisco, California, November 21, 2015.
Other Professional Talks
“Reflections and a look forward: space in the last decade and a glimpse to its future,” 10th Ilan Ramon Annual International Space Conference, Israel Air Force Center, Herzlia, Israel, January 28, 2015
Visiting Scholar, Western Michigan University, Grand Rapids, Michigan, April 6-9, 2015
Invited speaker, Startrek.com panel: “The Journey to Restoring the Enterprise,” The Official 2015 Star Trek Convention, Las Vegas, Nevada, August 7, 2015
Televised panel participant, What’s New in Aerospace series, “Sally Ride: Curating Her Life,” with Valerie Neal, Patricia Williams, and Dr. Tam O’Shaughnessy, the co-founder of Sally Ride Science, October 6, 2015
Panelist, Works in Progress presentation, “Introducing the Sally K. Ride Collection: Papers and Artifacts from America’s First Woman in Space,” Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, October 20, 2015, with Valerie Neal and Patricia Williams
Speaker, People>Passion>Promise campaign, Smithsonian Institution capital campaign
New York City, June 3, 2015
Los Angeles, September 16, 2015
Seattle, December 2, 2015 Book Reviews and Short Pieces
“I’m the Air and Space Museum curator. Here’s what Leonard Nimoy meant to me.” PostEverything invited on-line column, Washington Post, March 1, 2015, http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/03/01/im-the-air-and-space-museum-curator-heres-what-leonard-nimoy-meant-to-me/.
Review of Marketing the Moon: The Selling of the Apollo Lunar Program by David Meerman Scott and Richard Jurek in Technology and Culture, 56 (3, July 2015): 777-8.
Blogs
“Advising on the Star Trek Starship Enterprise,” AirSpace blog, December 30, 2014, http://blog.nasm.si.edu/behind-the-scenes/advising-on-the-enterprise/
“Inside the Enterprise Studio Model,” AirSpace blog, April 23, 2015, http://blog.nasm.si.edu/restoration/inside-star-trek-enterprise/