Publications by Division of Space History Staff

Staff Publications and Scholarly Activities Divisions of Aeronautics and Space History Calendar Year 2011

Paul E. Ceruzzi

Articles:

 “Manned Spaceflight and Artificial Intelligence: ‘Natural’ Trajectories of Technology,” in David L. Ferro and Eric G. Swedin, eds., Science Fiction and Computing: Essays on Interlinked Domains. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011. Pp. 95-116.  “Professor Brian Randell and the History of Computing,” in Cliff B. Jones and John L. Lloyd, eds., Dependable and Historic Computing: Essays Dedicated to Brian Randell on the Occasion of his 75th Birthday. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 2011. Pp. 166-73.

Book Reviews:

 Review of Christopher Bright, Continental Defense in the Eisenhower Era: Nuclear Antiaircraft Arms and the Cold War, in Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly 18/2 (2011): 63.

Dorothy Cochrane

Article:

 “Fleet Model 2 Plane Jane Lands at NASM,” Skyways The Journal of the Airplane 1920- 1940, No. 95, July 2011.

Professional Presentation:

 “Exhibitions at NASM in Washington Revisited: Barron Hilton Pioneers of Flight Gallery,” International Association for the History of Transport Traffic and Mobility (T2M), October 8, 2011, Deustches Technikmuseum, Berlin, Germany

Martin Collins

Articles:

 “History and Technology Forum”: Chandra Mukerji’s Impossible Engineering: Technology and Territoriality on the Canal du Midi. Introduction. History and Technology, 27(2): 183-186.

Papers at Professional Conferences:

 Chair and organizer, “Technology and Agency: Objects, Spaces, and Bodies,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, January 2011.  “Translating the Cold War Project to the Corporation: Motorola, Satellite Telephony, and the Global 1990s,” Business History Conference Annual Meeting, St. Louis, April 2011.

Other Scholarly Activity:

 Editor, History and Technology journal (Routledge), Vol. 26, No, 4.  Editor, History and Technology journal (Routledge), Vol. 27, No, 1.  Editor, History and Technology journal (Routledge), Vol. 27, No, 2.  Editor, History and Technology journal (Routledge), Vol. 27, No, 3.

Tom Crouch

Articles:

 “The Aero Club of Washington: Aviation in the Nation’s Capital, 1908-1924,” Washington History (2010: Vol. 21, No. 1), pg. 36-56.  “Chauffeur of the Skies: Roy Knabenshue and the Gas Bag Era,” Timeline (April-June, 2011), pp. 24-41.  “NASA Art: Fifty Years of Exploration,” Physics Today (August 2011), pp. 42-47.

Papers at Professional Conferences:

 Refereed and invited paper on “Wheeling and Flying,” on the historic links between cycling and aviation for the 23rd International Conference on the History of Bicycling, Paris, France, May 2011  Chaired and presented a paper at a National Air and Space Museum evening symposium on Civil War Ballooning, June 17, 2011  Virginia Beach, VA, gave refereed paper on Garland Fulton and LTA in the Navy, AIAA conference commemorating the centennial of naval aviation, September 23.

Presentations:

 Invited lecture to an AIAA national conference of aeronautical engineers: “A Historian looks to the Past…and considers the future,” Cleveland, Ohio, March 2011  Invited lecture on the history of ballooning in 19th century America to the annual meeting of the Balloon Federation of America, Des Moines, Iowa, April 2011  Invited keynote address to the Mutual Concerns of Aerospace Museums Conference, “Dayton – the Birth Place of Flight,” Dayton, Ohio, April 2011  Created and chaired a refereed panel on NASM Collectors and Collections, annual meeting of the Popular Culture Association, San Antonio, Texas, April 2011  Smithsonian Associates lecture on Civil War Ballooning, Riverside, California, May 2011  Invited lectures on aspects of the Wright Brothers at Wright Brothers National Memorial on National Aviation Day, Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, August 2011  AIAA Distinguished Lecture on the Wright Brothers, Columbus, Ohio, September 2011  Invited talk/book signing, Anderson, Abruzzo Albuquerque International Balloon Museum – for Balloon Fiesta, October 2.  Wright B Organization – invited talk on Wilbur Wright/served as master of ceremonies for annual meeting, October 14.  Organized an international scholarly symposium on the early history of gliding flight for the Soaring 100 conference; chaired symposium; gave invited talk on Gliding the Invention of the Airplane, Wright Brothers National Memorial, Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, October 22  Gave Distinguished Lecture at the annual Graduate Forum held by the Graduate School, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, November 4  Keynote talk and Master of Ceremonies for the Annual Meeting of the Wright B Organization, Dayton, Ohio, December 2011

James E. David

Papers at Professional Conferences:

 “GEOS-C and SEASAT-A: NASA Retreats from its Policies of Openness and Peaceful Applications,” Works-in-Progress presentation, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., August 9, 2011.  “BYEMAN, CREAM, DAFF, DINAR, IVORY, SPOKE, TALENT, TALENT-KEYHOLE, TRINE, ULTRA, UMBRA – What Are Codewords and What Do They Mean?” Society for History in the Federal Government Annual Meeting, Archives II, National Archives and Record Administration, College Park, Maryland, March 31, 2011.

David H. DeVorkin

Articles:

 “Space Heritage,” in Clive Ruggles and Michel Cotte, eds., Heritage Sites of Astronomy and Archaeoastronomy in the Context of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention: A Thematic Study. UNESCO/ICOMOS/IAU (June 2010) ISBN 978-2-918086-01-7 (e- book), pp. 229-37; reprinted in paper and published in February 2011 (ISBN 978-2- 918086-07-9). Co-authored with Mikhail Marov.

Book Reviews:

 “Finding Meaning in the Martian Landscape,” review of Geographies of Mars: Seeing and Knowing the Red Planet, in American Scientist 99 (May-June 2011): 262-63.

Hunter Hollins

Book Reviews:

 Review of Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base in Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly 18, no. 3 (2011): 55-56.  Review of Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void in Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly 18, no. 3 (2011): 60.

Jeremy Kinney

Presentation:

 “Racing on Runways: The Strategic Air Command and Sports Car Racing in the 1950s,” 38th International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC) Symposium in Glasgow, Scotland, August 7, 2011

Thomas Lassman

Articles:

 “Documenting the Cold War through Artifacts: A New Rationale for the National Air and Space Museum’s post-1945 Rocket and Missile Collection.” Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly 18:3 (2011): 45-52.

Presentations:

 “Quantum Mechanics in the Steel City: The Growth and Diversification of Physics Research in Pittsburgh, 1925-1940,” invited paper presented to the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, March 4, 2011.  “Historicizing Weapon Systems Acquisition in the U.S. Army: The Case of the Advanced Attack Helicopter, 1964-1985,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for History in the Federal Government, College Park, Maryland, March 31, 2011.

Roger D. Launius

Book:

 The Problem of Space Travel: The Rocket Motor. By Herman Noordung. Ljubljana, Slovenia: Cultural Centre of European Pace Technologies (KSEVT), 2011. Edited with J.D. Hunley and Frederick I. Ordway III.

Articles:

 “Remembering the Challenger Accident.” Space News, January 24, 2011, pp. 19, 21.  “All Roads Lead to Pensacola This Spring.” NCPH Public History News 31 (March 2011): 1, 3.  “History of Civil Space Activity and Power.” In Charles D. Lutes and Peter L. Hays. With Vincent A. Manzo, Lisa M. Yambrick, and M. Elaine Bunn. Editors. Toward a Theory of Spacepower: Selected Essays. Washington, DC: National Defense University Press, 2011. Pp. 179-214.  “Remembering the First Human Spaceflight.” Space News, April 11, 2011, pp. 41, 45.  “Climate Change and the Space Age: An Historiographical Review.” Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 2 (May/June 2011): 412-27.  “Remembering the Challenger Accident.” Space Times 50(2) (March/April 2011): 4-6.  “Foreword II,” The Problem of Space Travel: The Rocket Motor. By Herman Noordung. Ljubljana, Slovenia: Cultural Centre of European Pace Technologies (KSEVT), 2011. Pp. 40-45. With J.D. Hunley and Frederick I. Ordway III.  “Heroes in a Vacuum: The Apollo Astronaut as Cultural Icon,” in Å. Ingemar Skoog. Editor. Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth History Symposia of the International Academy of Astronautics, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2004. San Diego, CA: Univelt, Inc., AAS History Series, 2011. Pp. 107-33.  “Space Stations: Base Camps to the Stars,” in Å. Ingemar Skoog. Editor. Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth History Symposia of the International Academy of Astronautics, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2004. San Diego, CA: Univelt, Inc., AAS History Series, 2011. Pp. 421-46.

Papers at Professional Conferences:

 “Envisioning the Earth: Conceptions of this Planet from the Flat Earth to Gaia,” 49th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Orlando, Florida, January 5, 2011.  “Escaping Earth: Human Spaceflight as Religion,” 49th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Orlando, Florida, January 5, 2011.  “Access to Space: The Case of the Space Shuttle,” 49th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Orlando, Florida, January 6, 2011.  “Creating Open Territorial Rights in Cold and Icy Places: Cold War Rivalries and the Antarctic and Outer Space Treaties,” “Exploring Ice and Snow in the Cold War” Workshop, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society at the Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany, January 27, 2011.  “How We Remember Apollo,” at “Space and Society: A Cultural History of the Space Age, 1900-2009,” 3rd Symposium on Astrosociology at Space, Propulsion & Energy Sciences International Forum (SPESIF) 2011, University of Maryland Conference Center, College Park, Maryland, March 16, 2011.  “How We Got to Where We Are: 40 Years of Planning…,” 49th Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium, Greenbelt, Maryland, March 30, 2011.  Discussion leader for “Planetary Programs” and “Planetary Programs” sessions, Chemical Weather, Chemical Climate: Body, Place, Planet in Historical Perspective, The 2011 Gordon Cain Conference at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, 315 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 31-April 2, 2011.  “When Cosmic Tumblers Clicked into Place: Gagarin, JFK, and the Moon Race,” 18th International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) Humans in Space Symposium, Houston, Texas, April 12, 2011.  “Impact of the Space Shuttle on Aerospace: A Short History,” 18th International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) Humans in Space Symposium, Houston, Texas, April 14, 2011.  Commentator for “The Story of Slavery across the Atlantic,” session, National Council on Public History Annual Meeting, Historic Pensacola Village and Crowne Plaza Pensacola Grand Hotel, Pensacola, Florida, April 9, 2011.  Panelist on “John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon: Looking Back Fifty Years” roundtable discussion, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C., April 21, 2011.  Moderator for “Future Possibilities for Human Spaceflight Historical Research,” at “1961/1981: Key Moments in Human Spaceflight” History Symposium, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C., April 27, 2011.  “How We Remember Apollo,” Philosophical Society of Washington Lecture, Powell Auditorium of the Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C., April 29, 2011.  “The Right Stuff Revisited: Project Mercury 50 Years On,” Kansas City Public Library Space Anniversary Lecture, Kansas City, Missouri, May 5, 2011.  “Why go to the Moon: The Many Faces of Lunar Policy,” Distinguished Lecture, AIAA Albuquerque Section Awards Banquet, Albuquerque, New Mexico, May 19, 2011.  Moderator, “To the Moon: The Speech that Launched Apollo,” National Air and Space Society lecture, Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly, Virginia, May 25, 2011.  Moderator, “To the Moon: The Speech that Launched Apollo,” National Air and Space Society lecture, Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly, Virginia, May 25, 2011.  Moderator, John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon book talk by John M. Logsdon, “Moving Beyond Earth” exhibition, National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C., May 31, 2011.  “The Athlete as Activist: Reconsidering Baseball and Society in 1968,” 23rd Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, Cooperstown, New York, June 2, 2011.  Panelist, “Legacy and Lessons of the International Polar Year 2007-2008” National Academies Workshop, Washington D.C., June 15-16, 2011.  “Whither the Space Shuttle?” National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE) Teacher’s Workshop, Washington. D.C., July 7, 2011.  “Congress, the President, and Space Policy,” Georgetown University Intergovernmental Affairs Seminar, Washington, D.C., June 29, 2011.  Commentator, “Earth and Space Sciences” Session, Continuity and Discontinuity in the Physical Sciences Since the Enlightenment: A Conference for Graduate Students and Early-Career Scholars, Center for the History of Physics, American Institute of Physics, College Park, Maryland, July 29, 2011.  “NASA, Congress, and Space Policy,” Georgetown University Intergovernmental Affairs Seminar, Washington, D.C., August 2, 2001.  “Opposing Apollo: Public Resistance to the Moon Landings,” 62nd International Astronautical Congress, Cape Town, South Africa, October 3-7, 2011.  “The Strange Career of the Spaceplane: NASA and the Quest for Routine Human Space Operations,” 62nd International Astronautical Congress, Cape Town, South Africa, October 3-7, 2011.  “Denying the Moon Landings: Why Does it Look like the Flag is Blowing in the Wind?” presentation at “Conspiracies in Aerospace History: A Lesson in Critical Thinking for the Internet Age” web-based teacher’s conference, NASA, Washington, D.C., October 28, 2011.  “Returning from Deep Space: The Genesis and Stardust Missions and the Problem of Sample Return to Earth,” Society for the History of Technology annual meeting, Cleveland, Ohio, November 3-6, 2011.  “Science, Technology, Human Evolution…and Cyborgs?” Smithsonian Resident Associate Program, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., November 8, 2011.  “After Apollo: The Legacy of the Moon Landings,” Johns Hopkins University History of Science Colloquium, Baltimore, Maryland, November 17, 2011.

Other Professional Presentations:

 Moderator for Orphans of Apollo, a film with discussion by Michael Potter, Alan M. Ladwig, and Jeffrey Manber, opening event of Moving Beyond Earth: Innovations in Space symposium, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., November 18, 2011.  Five presentations on 12-night Caribbean Cruise on Celebrity “Silhouette,” leaving Bayonne, New Jersey, December 12-24, 2011.

Book Reviews:

 Review of Beyond UFOs: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Its Astonishing Implications for Our Future in Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly 18, no. 1 (2011): 54-55.  Review of Science Talk: Changing Notions of Science in American Culture, in Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly 18, no. 2 (2011): 62.  Review of The Nauvoo Legion in Missouri, in John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 31(1) (Spring/Summer 2011): 113-16.  Review of Talking About Life: Conversations on Astrobiology, in Space Times: The Magazine of the American Astronautical Society 50 (July/August 2011): 13.  Review of UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record in Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly 18, no. 3 (2011): 56-57.  Review of The Scientific Exploration of Mars in Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly 18, no. 3 (2011): 57-58.  Review of The Partnership: A NASA History of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly 18, no. 3 (2011): 59.  Review of Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man in Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly 18, no. 3 (2011): 61.  Review of Geographies of Mars in Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly 18, no. 4 (2011): 60-61.

Russ Lee

Presentation:

 “Playing with Technology: How Uncle Sam Saved the Ultralight Aircraft Movement” presented at the 38th International Committee for the History of Technology Symposium in Glasgow, Scotland, August 6, 2011.

Jennifer Levasseur

Papers at Professional Conferences:

 Panelist, “Practicing History and Careers in the Federal Government,” Organization of American Historians, Houston, TX, March 19, 2011.  “NASA and Hasselblad: Government as Consumer,” International Committee for the History of Technology, Glasgow, Scotland, August 6, 2011.

Book Reviews:

 Review of Live TV From the Moon by Dwight Steven-Boniecki, in Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly 18, no. 1 (2011): 59.

Cathy Lewis

Book:

 U.S. Spacesuit Knowledge Capture. Tech. Rept. no. JSC-CN-23356. Portland, Oregon: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2011. With Cinda Chullen, Ken Thomas, Joe McMann, and Rose Bitterly Dolan.

Article:

 “From the Kitchen Into Orbit: The Convergence of Human Spaceflight and Khrushchev’s Nascent Consumerism.” In James T. Andrews and Asif A. Siddiqi. Editors. Into the Cosmos: Space Exploration and Soviet Culture. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011. Pp. 213-39.

Papers at Professional Conferences:

 “Spaceflight, Nostalgia and Film: Forming a Russian Assessment of the First Cosmonauts,” in “The Evolution of Nationalism in Russia: From Discourse to Action” session, chair Mark N. Katz, the 49th Annual Meeting of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies. Alexandria, Virginia, April 9, 2011.  “Anastylosis or No? Collecting a Spacesuit in the 21st Century,” In Conceptualizing, Collecting and Presenting Recent Science and Technology, chair Bryan Dewalt. Artefacts XVI. Leiden, Netherlands, September 26, 2011.

Book Reviews:

 Review of Red Cosmos: K. E. Tsiolkovskii, Grandfather of Soviet Rocketry, in Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly 18, no. 1 (2011): 58.  Review of Starman in Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly 18, no. 4 (2011): 62- 63.

Allan A. Needell

Papers at Professional Conferences:

 “James Webb, ‘Space Age Management,’ and Post-Capitalist Ideas,” Business History Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, March 31–April 2, 2011.

Michael J. Neufeld

Book:

 Von Braun: Inżynier Nazistów i Amerykanów. Warsaw: Świat Ksiązki, 2011.

Papers at Professional Conferences:

 Moderator, “1961: Human Spaceflight in the Heroic Era” session, 1961/1981: Key Moments in Human Spaceflight symposium, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C., April 27, 2011.  “The Smithsonian, NASM and U.S. National Identity.” Australian National University. Workshop on a National Space and Astronomy Museum, Canberra, Australia, May 6, 2011.

Book Reviews:

 Continental Defense in the Eisenhower Era: Nuclear Antiaircraft Arms and the Cold War. By Christopher J. Bright. The Journal of Military History 75 (2011), 971-73.  Physics and Politics: Research and Research Support in Twentieth Century Germany in International Perspective. Edited by Helmuth Trischler and Mark Walker. Technology and Culture 52 (July 2011), 649-50.