Publications
Our staff write books on a wide variety of aviation- and space-related topics, including our 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 Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Centennial of Flight series), Palgrave Macmillan (Palgrave Studies in the History of Science Technology), Texas A&M University Press (Centennial of Flight series), and the University of Missouri Press (Sports and American Culture).
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The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemünde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era
First published in hardcover by The Free Press, a division of Simon & Schuster, in 1995.
Space Shuttle Legacy: How We Did It and What We Learned
AIAA Library of Flight
Where Next, Columbus? The Future of Space Exploration
A publication by the staff of the National Air and Space Museum.
The Red Rockets' Glare: Spaceflight and the Russian Imagination, 1857–1957
Cambridge Centennial of Flight series, edited by John Anderson and Von Hardesty
Aircraft of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution Fourth Edition
First edition 1976, revised 1981, 1985, and 1991
Airlines of Latin America since 1919
Originally published by Putnam, 1983; reprinted by Smithsonian Institution Press, 1984; reprinted by Paladwr Press, 1997.
Airlines of Asia since 1920
First published by Brassey's: Putnam Aeronautical; first American edition, 1997.
Airlines of the United States since 1914
Originally printed by Putnam, 1972; revised reprinting by Smithsonian Institution Press, 1982; reprinted Paladwr Press, 1998.
Spacefarers: Images of Astronauts and Cosmonauts in the Heroic Era of Spaceflight
Edited by Michael J. Neufeld, with contributions from Margaret Weitekamp, Matthew Hersch, James Spiller, Andrew Jenks, Guillaume de Syon, Trevor S. Rockwell, Valerie Neal, Jennifer Ross-Nazzal, and Margaret Lazarus Dean.
The Aviation Careers of Igor Sikorsky
A book by members of the National Air and Space Museum staff.