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Aiming for the Stars book cover

Aiming for the Stars: The Dreamers and Doers of the Space Age

Airlines of the Jet Age book cover

Airlines of the Jet Age: A History

R. E. G. Davies

Around the World in 175 Days: The First Round-the-World Flight book cover

Around the World in 175 Days: The First Round-The-World Flight

Carroll V. Glines

Asteroids: A History book cover

Asteroids: A History

Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.: American: An Autobiography book cover

Benjamin O. Davis Jr., American: An Autobiography

Benjamin O. Davis Jr.

Bernt Balchen: Polar Aviatior book cover

Bernt Balchen: Polar Aviatior

Carroll V. Glines

Chasing the Silver Bullet: U.S. Air Force Weapons Development from Vietnam to Desert Storm book cover

Chasing the Silver Bullet: U.S. Air Force Weapons Development from Vietnam to Desert Storm

Kenneth P. Werrell

China Pilot: Flying for Chennault During the Cold War book cover

China Pilot: Flying for Chiang and Chennault

Fred Whipple's Empire: The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, 1955–1973 book cover

Fred Whipple’s Empire: The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, 1955–1973

David H. DeVorkin

Hubble's Legacy: Reflections by Those Who Dreamed It, Built It, and Observed the Universe with It (Smithsonian Contribution to Knowledge) book cover

Hubble’s Legacy

Roger D. Launius, David H. Devorkin (Editors)

Nuclear Weapons and Aircraft Carriers book cover

Nuclear Weapons and Aircraft Carriers

Only the Wing: Reimar Horten's Epic Quest to Stabilize and Control the All-Wing Aircraft / With a New Introduction book cover

Only the Wing: Reimar Horten’s Epic Quest to Stabilize and Control the All-Wing Aircraft / With a New Introduction

Patton's Air Force book cover

Patton’s Air Force: Forging a Legendary Air-Ground Team

David N. Spires

Spacefarers: Images of Astronauts and Cosmonauts in the Heroic Era of Spaceflight (A Smithsonian Contribution to Knowledge) book cover

Spacefarers: Images of Astronauts and Cosmonauts in the Heroic Era of Spaceflight

Michael J. Neufeld (Editor)

The Air Force Integrates, 1945-1964, Second Edition (Smithsonian History of Aviation Series) book cover

The Air Force Integrates, 1945-1964, Second Edition

Alan L. Gropman

The Enterprise of Flight: The American Aviation and Aerospace Industry (Smithsonian History of Aviation and Spaceflight Series) book cover

The Enterprise of Flight

Roger E. Bilstein

The Origins of Satellite Communications, 1945-1965 book cover

The Origins of Satellite Communications, 1945-1965

David J. Whalen