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CURRICULUM VITAE MICHAEL JOHN NEUFELD Space History Division (MRC 311) office: (202) 633-2434 National Air and Space Museum fax: (202) 786-2947 Smithsonian Institution [email protected] P.O. Box 37012 Washington, DC 20013-7012 EDUCATION 1970-74 University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta. B.A.(First Class Honours), History. 1974-76 University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. M.A., History. 1978-84 The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. M.A., Ph.D., History. Dissertation: "From Artisans to Workers: The Transformation of the Skilled Metalworkers of Nuremberg, 1835-1905." RESEARCH AND TEACHING POSITIONS 1983-85 Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York. Part-time Assistant Professor (1984-85), Part-time Instructor (1983-84). 1985-86 State University of New York College at Oswego. Visiting Assistant Professor. 1986-88 Colgate University, Hamilton, New York. Visiting Assistant Professor. 1988- National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Senior Curator (2014- ), Museum Curator, (1999-2014), Chair, Space History Division (2007-11), Museum Curator in Aeronautics Division (1990-99), Smithsonian Postdoctoral Fellow and NSF Fellow (1989-90), A. Verville Fellow (1988-89). Fall 2001 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. Senior Lecturer (visiting position). BOOKS The Skilled Metalworkers of Nuremberg: Craft and Class in the Industrial Revolution. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1989. The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemünde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era. New York: The Free Press, 1995. (Paperback edition, Harvard University Press, 1996; German translation, Brandenburgisches Verlagshaus, 1997, 2 nd ed. Henschel Verlag, 1999; paperback and e-book edition,

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CURRICULUM VITAE

MICHAEL JOHN NEUFELD

Space History Division (MRC 311) office: (202) 633-2434

National Air and Space Museum fax: (202) 786-2947

Smithsonian Institution [email protected]

P.O. Box 37012

Washington, DC 20013-7012

EDUCATION

1970-74 University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta. B.A.(First Class Honours), History.

1974-76 University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. M.A., History.

1978-84 The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. M.A., Ph.D., History.

Dissertation: "From Artisans to Workers: The Transformation of the Skilled

Metalworkers of Nuremberg, 1835-1905."

RESEARCH AND TEACHING POSITIONS

1983-85 Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York. Part-time Assistant Professor

(1984-85), Part-time Instructor (1983-84).

1985-86 State University of New York College at Oswego. Visiting Assistant

Professor.

1986-88 Colgate University, Hamilton, New York. Visiting Assistant Professor.

1988- National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Senior

Curator (2014- ), Museum Curator, (1999-2014), Chair, Space History Division

(2007-11), Museum Curator in Aeronautics Division (1990-99), Smithsonian

Postdoctoral Fellow and NSF Fellow (1989-90), A. Verville Fellow (1988-89).

Fall 2001 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. Senior Lecturer (visiting

position).

BOOKS The Skilled Metalworkers of Nuremberg: Craft and Class in the Industrial

Revolution. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1989.

The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemünde and the Coming of the Ballistic

Missile Era. New York: The Free Press, 1995. (Paperback edition, Harvard

University Press, 1996; German translation, Brandenburgisches Verlagshaus,

1997, 2nd

ed. Henschel Verlag, 1999; paperback and e-book edition,

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Smithsonian Books, 2013). Winner of the 1995 AIAA History Manuscript

Award and the 1997 SHOT Dexter Prize.

Editor, Planet Dora: A Memoir of the Holocaust and the Origins of the

Space Age, by Yves Béon. With an Introduction by myself, "Mittelbau-Dora:

Secret Weapons and Slave Labor." Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997.

Editor, with Michael Berenbaum. The Bombing of Auschwitz: Should the

Allies Have Attempted It? Published in association with the U.S. Holocaust

Memorial Museum. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000. Paperback edition:

Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2003.

Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War. New York: Alfred A.

Knopf, 2007. (Winner of the 2008 OAH Leopold Prize, 2008 Smithsonian

Secretary’s Research Prize, and the American Astronautical Society’s 2007

Eugene M. Emme Award.) Paperback edition: New York: Vintage, 2008.

Translated as Von Braun: Krigsingeniør og rumfartsvisionær (Copenhagen:

Schønberg, 2009), Wernher von Braun: Visionär des Weltraums—Ingenieur

des Krieges (Munich: Siedler, 2009), and Von Braun: Inżynier Nazistów i

Amerykanów (Warsaw: Świat Ksiązki, 2011).

Editor, with Alex M Spencer. Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum: An

Autobiography. Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 2010.

Editor, Spacefarers: Images of Astronauts and Cosmonauts in the Heroic

Era of Spaceflight. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly

Press, 2013.

Editor, Milestones of Space: Eleven Iconic Objects from the Smithsonian

National Air and Space Museum. Minneapolis, MN: Smithsonian National

Air and Space Museum in association with Zenith Press, 2014.

SCHOLARLY ARTICLES

"German Artisans and Political Repression: The Fall of the Journeymen's

Associations in Nuremberg, 1806-1868," Journal of Social History 19

(Spring 1986), 491-502.

"Weimar Culture and Futuristic Technology: The Rocketry and Spaceflight

Fad in Germany, 1923-1933." Technology and Culture 31 (Oct. 1990), 725-

752.

"Hitler, the V-2, and the Battle for Priority, 1939-1943." The Journal of

Military History 57 (July 1993), 511-538.

"The Guided Missile and the Third Reich: Peenemünde and the Forging of a

Technological Revolution." In Science, Technology and National Socialism,

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edited by Monika Renneberg and Mark Walker, 51-71, 352-356 (Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press, 1994).

"Der soziale und kulturelle Kontext der Raketen- und Raumfahrtbewegung

in der Weimarer Republik." In Vernichtung durch Fortschritt: Am Beispiel

der Raketenproduktion im Konzentrationslager Mittelbau, edited by Torsten

Heß and Thomas A. Seidel, 19-31 (Bad Münstereifel: Westkreuz-Verlag,

1995).

"Rolf Engel vs. the German Army: A Nazi Career in Rocketry and

Repression." History and Technology 13 (1996), 53-72.

"The Excluded: Hermann Oberth and Rudolf Nebel in the Third Reich."

Quest 5 (1996), 22-27. Also published in History of Rocketry and

Astronautics: Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth and Twenty-Ninth History

Symposia of the International Academy of Astronautics, ed. by Donald C.

Elder and Christophe Rothmund (San Diego: Univelt, Inc., for the American

Astronautical Society, 2001), 209-222.

"Heylandt's Rocket Cars and the V-2: A Little Known Chapter in the History

of Rocket Technology." With Frank H. Winter. In History of Rocketry and

Astronautics: Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth History Symposium of the

International Academy of Astronautics, ed. by Phillipe Jung (San Diego:

Univelt, Inc., for the American Astronautical Society, 1997), 41-72.

"Rocket Aircraft and the `Turbojet Revolution': The Luftwaffe's Quest for

High-Speed Flight, 1935-1939." In Innovation and the Development of

Flight, edited by Roger D. Launius (College Station: Texas A&M University

Press, 1999), 207-234.

“German Spaceflight Advocacy from Weimar to Disney.” In 1998 National

Aerospace Conference Proceedings (Dayton, Ohio: Wright State University,

1999), 72-76.

"The Reichswehr, the Rocket and the Versailles Treaty: A Popular Myth

Reexamined." Journal of the British Interplanetary Society 53 (May/June

2000), 163-172.

"Orbiter, Overflight and the First U.S. Satellite: New Light on the Vanguard

Decision." In Reconsidering Sputnik, edited by Roger D. Launius, John M.

Logsdon, and Robert W. Smith (Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers,

2000), 231-57.

“Overcast, Paperclip, Osoaviakhim: Plünderung und Transfer deutscher

Militärtechnologie.” In Die USA und Deutschland im Zeitalter des Kalten

Krieges 1945-1990: Ein Handbuch, edited by Detlef Junker

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(Stuttgart/Munich: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2001), I:306-16. Republished

as “Overcast, Paperclip, Osoaviakhim: Looting and the Transfer of German

Military Technology” in The United States and Germany in the Era of the

Cold War, 1945-2000, edited by Detlef Junker (Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press, 2004), I:197-203.

“Wernher von Braun, the SS and Concentration Camp Labor: Questions of

Moral, Political and Criminal Responsibility.” German Studies Review 25

(February 2002), 57-78; “Response to Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger” in “Wernher von

Braun and Concentration Camp Labor: An Exchange,” German Studies

Review 26 (February 2003), 122-26.

“Braun, Wernher von,” in Lexikon bedeutender Naturwissenschaftler, edited

by Dieter Hoffmann, et al. (Heidelberg: Spektrum, 2003), I:243-49.

“Peenemünde, die Rakete and der NS-Staat,” and “Das Erbe von

Peenemünde in den Vereinigten Staaten,” In Peenemünde: Mythos und

Geschichte der Rakete 1936-1989, edited by Johannes Erichsen and

Bernhard M. Hoppe (Berlin: Nikolai, 2004), 35-42, 79-86.

“Die Peenemünder Raketeningenieure und die Entwicklung ballistischer

Raketen in den USA.” In Raketenrüstung und internationale Sicherheit von

1942 bis heute, edited by Thomas Stamm-Kühlmann and Reinhard Wolf

(Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 2004), 29-38.

“The End of the Army Space Program: Interservice Rivalry and the Transfer

of the Von Braun Group to NASA, 1958-1959.” Journal of Military History

69 (July 2005), 737-57.

“‘Space Superiority’: Wernher von Braun’s Campaign for a Nuclear-Armed

Space Station, 1946-1956.” Space Policy 22 (March 2006), 57-62.

“Wernher von Braun’s Ultimate Weapon.” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

63, no. 4 (July/August 2007), 50-57, 78. (Abridged version of “‘Space

Superiority’.”)

“Von Braun and the Lunar-Orbit-Rendezvous Decision: Finding a Way to

Go to the Moon.” Acta Astronautica 63 (July-Aug. 2008), 540-50.

“Wernher von Braun, Science, Technology and Defense Policy in Germany

and the United States, 1932-1977.” In Who is Making Science? Scientists as

Makers of Technical-Scientific Structures and Administrators of Science

Policy, edited by Albert Presas i Puig, 63-75. Preprint 361. Berlin: Max-

Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 2008.

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“Creating a Memory of the German Rocket Program for the Cold War.” In

Remembering the Space Age, edited by Steven J. Dick (Washington, DC:

NASA, 2008), 71-87.

“The ‘Von Braun Paradigm’ and NASA’s Long-Term Planning for Human

Spaceflight.” In NASA’s First 50 Years: Historical Perspectives, edited by

Steven J. Dick (Washington, DC: NASA, 2010), 325-47.

“Space Artifact or Nazi Weapon? Displaying the Smithsonian’s V-2 Missile,

1976-2011.” Co-authored with David H. DeVorkin. Endeavour, 35 (2011),

187-195.

“‘Smash the Myth of the Fascist Rocket Baron’: East German Attacks on

Wernher von Braun in the 1960s,” in Imagining Outer Space, edited by

Alexander C. T. Geppert (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), 106-26.

“The Nazi Aerospace Exodus: Towards a Global, Transnational History,”

History and Technology 28 (2012), 49-67.

“Was the Rocket Invented or Accidentally Discovered? Some Observations

on its Origins.” Co-authored with Frank H. Winter (first author) and Kerrie

Dougherty. Acta Astronautica 77 (2012), 131-37.

“The Three Heroes of Spaceflight: The Rise of the Tsiolkovsky-Goddard-

Oberth Interpretation and Its Current Validity.” Quest 19, no. 4 (2012), 4-13.

“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.

SHORT ENTRIES AND POPULAR ARTICLES

"Von Braun, Wernher Magnus Maximilian," Encyclopedia of American

Biography, 2nd

ed. (New York: HarperCollins, 1996), 1181.

“The Road to Peenemünde.” MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military

History 11 (Winter 1999), 72-77.

"Ehricke, Krafft Arnold.” American National Biography (New York: Oxford

University Press, 1999), VII:354-355.

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"Mythos Peenemünde: Reflektionen aus internationaler Sicht." In

Peenemünde: Facetten eines historischen Ortes (Schwerin: Landeszentrale

für politische Bildung Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, 1999), 8-14.

“Missiles, Guided,” and “Missiles, Intercontinental Ballistic (ICBM)" in The

Facts on File Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and Society, edited by

Rudi Volti (New York: Facts on File, 1999), 645-46, 648-50.

“Mercury Capsule Friendship 7,” “Gemini VII” and “Apollo Lunar Module

LM-2,” in At the Controls: The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

Book of Cockpits, edited by Tom Alison and Dana Bell (Niagara Falls, NY:

Boston Mills Press, 2001), 120-24, 128.

“Wernher von Braun, the Hermann Lietz Schools and the Dream of

Spaceflight,” in 75 Jahre Hermann Lietz Schule Spiekeroog, edited by Dr.

Hartmut Henke (Spiekeroog: Hermann Lietz-Schule Spiekeroog, 2003),

73-76.

“Rudolph, Arthur.” Neue Deutsche Biographie, edited by the Historische

Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Berlin:

Duncker & Humblot, 2005), XXII: 200-01.

“Auschwitz Bombing Controversy,” in Encyclopedia Judaica, 2nd

edition

(New York: Macmillan, 2006), II:673-74.

“Von Braun, Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr,” New Dictionary of

Scientific Biography, edited by Noretta Koertge (Detroit: Charles Scribner’s

Sons, 2008), VII: 172-76.

“‘One-Stick’ Repulsor Rocket Nozzle,” “‘Vengeance Weapon 2’: The V-2

Ballistic Missile,” “Promoting Space Exploration Before Sputnik: The

Collier’s Space Series, 1952-1954,” “Alan Shepard’s Mercury Spacecraft

Training Diagram,” “Friendship 7 Ansco Camera,” “Gemini Heat Shield,”

“Gemini IV Umbilical,” and “Gemini VII Spacecraft.” In After Sputnik: 50

Years of the Space Age, edited by Martin Collins, 16, 22, 36, 67, 77, 90, 94,

105. New York: Smithsonian Books/HarperCollins, 2007.

“Mittelbau Main Camp (aka Dora),” “Ellrich (Erich, Mittelbau II), (aka

Ellrich-Juliushütte),” “Ellrich/Woffleben (Lager B-12),” in The United

States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos,

1933-1945. Vol. 1, Early Camps, Youth Camps, and Concentration Camps

and Subcamps under the SS-Business Administration Main Office (WVHA),

edited by Geoffrey P. Megargee, et al. (Bloomington: Indiana University

Press, in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum,

2009), 966-71, 979-81.

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“Wernher von Braun” and “V-2.” In Space Exploration and Humanity: A

Historical Encyclopedia, edited by the American Astronautical Society and

Stephen B. Johnston (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2010), 1169-71,

1194-97.

“The NASA-NASM Partnership.” In Smithsonian National Air and Space

Museum: An Autobiography, edited by Michael J. Neufeld and Alex M Spencer.

(Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 2010), 252-59.

“A New History of the Museum.” AirSpace blog entry on National Air and

Space Museum website, Nov. 18, 2010:

http://blog.nasm.si.edu/2010/11/18/a-new-history-of-the-museum/.

“Minor Planet 4262 DeVorkin.” AirSpace blog entry on National Air and

Space Museum website, Jan. 7, 2013:

http://blog.nasm.si.edu/2013/01/07/minor-planet-4262-devorkin/.

“Mercury Capsule Friendship 7,” in Milestones of Space: Eleven Iconic

Objects from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (Minneapolis,

MN: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in association with

Zenith Press, 2014).

“‘Buzz Bomb’: 70th

Anniversary of the V-1 Campaign.” AirSpace blog entry

on National Air and Space Museum website, June 13, 2014:

http://blog.nasm.si.edu/history/buzz-bomb-70th-anniversary-of-the-v-1-

campaign/.

“‘Vengeance Weapon 2’: 70th Anniversary of the V-2 Campaign.” AirSpace

blog entry on National Air and Space Museum website, Sept. 8, 2014:

http://blog.nasm.si.edu/history/vengeance-weapon-2-70th-anniversary-of-

the-v-2-campaign/.

“Wernher von Brauns Faustischer Pakt,” in Outer Space: Faszination

Weltraum, edited by the Bundeskunsthalle (Bonn: Nicolai, 2014), 33-36.

“Remembering Milton W. Rosen,” AirSpace blog entry on National Air and

Space Museum website, January 30, 2015: http://blog.nasm.si.edu/new-

events/remembering-milton-w-rosen/.

“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.

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PAPERS, CONFERENCES AND LECTURES

Mar. 2015 The NACA Centenary: A Symposium, Washington, DC. Chair of the session

“Key Aspects of NACA Research.”

Nov. 2014 SHOT (Society for the History of Technology) Annual Meeting, Dearborn,

MI. Chair and commentator for the session “Users and Mediators.”

Oct. 2014 Goddard, Dreams, Hope & Reality: Aiming for the Stars, Roswell, NM.

Presented a lecture, “Robert Goddard and Wernher von Braun.”

Aug. 2014 ICOHTEC (International Committee of the History of Technology) annual

meeting, Brasov, Romania. Chaired the session “Rocketry and Spaceflight in

the Cold War and After,” and presented a talk in the same session, “U.S.

Planetary Exploration in the Post-Cold War World.”

Apr. 2014 Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, “Embattled Heavens” conference.

Member of concluding panel, “Reconfigurations.”

Mar. 2014 University of Nebraska Omaha Medical Center. Presented a talk: “Von

Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War”

Mar. 2014 Durham Museum, Omaha, NE. Presented a talk: “The Apollo 8 Mission:

First Voyage to the Moon.”

Feb. 2014 University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, via teleconference. Presented

“First Mission to Pluto: Policy, Politics, Science and Technology in the

Origins of New Horizons, 1989-2003,” to a graduate space science course on

New Horizons.

Nov. 2013 Washington & Jefferson College, Washington, PA. Presented a talk: “Von

Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War.”

Oct. 2013 Society for the History of Technology, Portland, ME. Chair and commentator

for the “Technological Enthusiasm” session.

Sep. 2013 International Astronautical Congress, Beijing, China. Presented a talk: “First

Mission to Pluto: Policy, Politics, Science and Technology in the Origins of

New Horizons, 1989-2003.”

Sep. 2013 NASA Quarterly History Lecture, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.

Presented a talk: “First Mission to Pluto: Policy, Politics, Science and

Technology in the Origins of New Horizons, 1989-2003.”

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Apr. 2013 National Council on Public History, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Presented a

talk, together with Timothy Grove, “Designing a New Moon Race Exhibition

for a New Generation.”

Feb. 2013 Smithsonian Congress of Scholars Lecture Series, Washington, DC.

Presented a talk, together with David DeVorkin, on “Space Artifact or Nazi

Weapon: Displaying the Smithsonian’s V-2 Missile, 1976-2012.”

Nov. 2012 History of Science Society Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA. Presented a

paper, “Transforming Solar System Exploration: The Origins of the

Discovery Program, 1989-1993.”

Oct. 2012 Solar System Exploration @ 50 symposium, Crystal City, VA. Presented a

paper, “Transforming Solar System Exploration: The Applied Physics

Laboratory and the Origins of the Discovery Program, 1989-1993.”

Sept. 2012 Peenemünde 2020 symposium, Historisch-Technisches Museum

Peenemünde, Germany. Gave invited talk, “Exhibiting the V-2 in Museums:

A Global Comparison.”

Mar. 2012 Wernher von Braun Gymnasium, Friedberg, Germany. Invited lecture,

“Wernher von Braun: A 100 Year Retrospective.” In addition, participation

in a panel discussion at the Deutsches Museum Munich.

Mar. 2012 “Wernher von Braun: A 100 Year Retrospective.” ARGE Schlier,

Neukirchen, Austria.

Nov. 2011 Moving Beyond Earth: Innovations in Space symposium, Washington, DC,

co-sponsored by the National Air and Space Museum and the Lemelson

Center, National Museum of American History. Delivered an invited talk,

"Access to Space: Visions and Reality."

Nov. 2011 From Mass Murder to Exhibition: Museum Representations in Transatlantic

Comparison workshop, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC.

Delivered an invited talk, "Technology Museums and Nazi Crimes: The V-2

Missile as Special Case."

Oct. 2011 International Astronautical Congress, Cape Town, South Africa. Presented 2

talks: “The Three Heroes of Spaceflight: The Rise of the Tsiolkovskii-

Goddard Oberth Interpretation and Its Current Validity,” and (co-authored by

Frank H. Winter and Kerrie Dougherty), “Was the Rocket ‘Invented’ or

‘Accidentally Discovered’? Some Observations on its Origins.”

May 2011 Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Workshop on a

National Astronomy and Space Museum. Presented a talk, “The

Smithsonian, NASM and U.S. National Identity.”

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April 2011 1961/1981: Key Moments in Human Spaceflight conference, NASA

Headquarters, Washington, DC. Conference co-organizer and moderator of

the panel “1961: Human Spaceflight in the Heroic Era.”

Nov. 2010 Philosophical Society of Washington, Cosmos Club, Washington, DC.

Invited lecture, “Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War.”

Nov. 2010 University of North Dakota, Space Studies Department, Grand Forks, ND.

Invited lecture, “Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War.”

Oct. 2010 Society for the History of Technology Annual Meeting, Tacoma, WA.

Presented a talk, “The Transfer of German Military Technology after World

War II: Global Impact, Successes and Failures.”

Sep. 2010 Artefacts XV, Ottawa, Ont. Presented a talk, “The Nazi Aerospace Exodus:

Towards a Global Transnational History.”

Mar. 2010 Works-in-Progress series, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian

Institution, Washington, DC. Presented a talk, “The Three Heroes of

Spaceflight: The Rise of the Tsiolkovsky-Goddard-Oberth Interpretation and

Its Current Validity.”

Feb. 2010 University of Alabama Huntsville. Presented an invited lecture, “Mittelbau-

Dora in History and Memory.”

July 2009 International Congress of the History of Science and Technology, Budapest,

Hungary. Presented a talk, “The Three Heroes of Spaceflight: The Rise of

the Tsiolkovsky-Goddard-Oberth Interpretation and Its Current Validity.”

Apr. 2009 Mutual Concerns of Air and Space Museums, Ottawa. Presented a talk, “The

V-2: Problems of Memory and Representation in Museums.”

Dec. 2008 Library of Congress, What If.... Science Fiction and Fantasy Forum,

Washington, DC. Invited lecture: “Von Braun, Colliers and Disney: Selling

Space in the 1950s.”

Oct. 2008 NASA’s First 50 Years: A Historical Perspective, Washington, DC.

Presented a talk, “The ‘Von Braun Paradigm” and NASA’s Long-Term

Planning for Human Spaceflight.”

Oct. 2008 Society for the History of Technology Annual Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal.

Chair of sessions: “Touching Space: Images and Artifacts in the History of

Space Exploration,” and “Aviation Myth Reconsidered.”

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Sep. 2008 Smithsonian Congress of Scholars Lecture Series, Washington, DC. “Von

Braun: Dreamer of Space Engineer of War.”

Aug. 2008 ICOHTEC Conference, University of Victoria, British Columbia. Chaired the

session “For More Than Just the Love of Flying: Women Pilots Pushing

Boundaries.”

Apr. 2008 Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. Delivered lecture sponsored by the

National Archives Southeast Region: “Von Braun: Dreamer of Space

Engineer of War.”

Apr. 2008 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, History of Science Colloquium.

Invited paper: “‘Smash the Myth of the Fascist Rocket Baron’: East German

Attacks on Wernher von Braun in the 1960s.”

Mar. 2008 Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. Delivered an invited talk,

“Space Hero or Nazi Villain?: Wernher von Braun as Cold-War Icon.”

Mar. 2008 Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., seminar “Leading With Integrity:

Ethics in Action.” Invited lecture: “Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer

of War.”

Feb. 2008 Niels Bohr Archives, Copenhagen, Denmark. Invited lecture: “Von Braun:

Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War.”

Feb. 2008 Imagining Space: 1900-2000, Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung,

Universität Bielefeld, Germany. Delivered a refereed paper, “‘Smash the

Myth of the Fascist Rocket Baron’: East German Attacks on Wernher von

Braun in the 1960s.”

Jan. 2008 Yale University, Program in the History of Science and Medicine

Colloquium, New Haven, CT. Delivered an invited talk, “Space Hero or Nazi

Villain?: Wernher von Braun as Cold-War Icon.”

Nov. 2007 Who is Making Science? Scientists as Makers of Science Policy, Universitat

Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. Delivered a paper: “Wernher von Braun,

Science, Technology and Defense Policy in Germany and the United States,

1932-1977.”

Oct. 2007 Remembering the Space Age: 50th

Anniversary Conference, Washington,

DC. Delivered a paper: “Creating a Memory of the German Rocket Program

for the Cold War.”

Oct. 2007 Society for the History of Technology conference, Washington, DC.

Commentator for the session, “Revisiting Debates on Dictatorship and

Technology.”

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Sept. 2007 International Astronautical Congress, Hyderabad, India. Delivered a paper:

“Wernher von Braun and the Lunar-Orbit-Rendezvous Decision: Finding a

Way to Go to the Moon.”

Apr. 2007 50 Years in Space panel, British Association of American Studies conference,

Leicester, England. Invited lecture: “Space Enthusiasts and their

Disappointments.”

Apr. 2007 Western Social Science Association conference, Calgary, Alberta. Delivered

refereed paper: “Space Hero or Nazi Villain? Wernher von Braun as Cold-

War Icon in the U.S. and the Two Germanies After Sputnik.”

Mar. 2007 University of Maryland, Maryland History of Technology Seminar, College

Park. Invited lecture: “Space Hero or Nazi Villain? Wernher von Braun as

Cold-War Icon in the U.S. and the Two Germanies After Sputnik.”

Oct. 2006 Society for the History of Technology conference, Las Vegas, NV. Panel

participant in “Writing Lives: Biography as a Window to Interpreting

Technology.”

Apr. 2005 Western Social Science Association conference, Albuquerque, NM.

Delivered refereed paper: “‘Space Superiority’: Wernher von Braun’s

Campaign for a Nuclear-Armed Space Station, 1946-1956.”

Jan. 2005 National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington,

DC. Delivered a lecture, “Von Braun, Colliers, and Disney: Selling Space in

the 1950s.”

Nov. 2004 NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center, Greenbelt, MD, Engineers Colloquium.

Delivered an invited lecture, “Von Braun, Colliers, and Disney: Selling

Space in the 1950s.”

Oct. 2004 German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, conference “Science and

Technology in the 20th Century: Cultures of Innovation in Germany and the

United States.” Commentator in the session “Transatlantic Comparisons.”

Mar. 2004 F. F. Thompson Annual Lecture, Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario.

Invited lecture: “The Bombing of Auschwitz: Should the Allies Have

Attempted It?”

Oct. 2003 Ballistic Missile Analysis Conference, National Imagery and Mapping

Agency, Bethesda, Md. Invited lecture: “The Rocket and the Reich:

Peenemünde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era.”

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Sep. 2003 German Studies Association conference, New Orleans, La. Chair and

commentator for the session “Vom Winde verweht?: German Scientists and

Engineers Abroad after 1945.”

Oct. 2002 Society for the History of Technology conference, Toronto, Ontario. Chair

and co-organizer of the session “Space Policy, Politics and Technology.”

Oct. 2002 “Die zwei Enden der Parabel”: Wissenschaflichte Fachtagung:

Raketenrüstung und internationale Sicherheit von 1942 bis heute, Greifswald

und Peenemünde, Germany. Invited paper: “The German Rocket Engineers

in the Service of the United States.”

Apr. 2002 National Imagery and Mapping Agency, Bethesda, Maryland. Invited

lecture: “The Bombing of Auschwitz: Should the Allies Have Attempted It?”

Apr. 2002 ASME Regional Student Conference, Rowan University, Glassboro, New

Jersey. Invited lecture: “The German V-2 and the Birth of Rocket

Engineering.”

Oct. 2001 They Taught the World to Fly—The Wright Brothers and the Age of Flight

conference, Raleigh, North Carolina. Invited paper: “The End of the Army

Space Program: Von Braun, Medaris and the Transfer of ABMA to NASA,

1958-1959.”

Oct. 2001 Society for the History of Technology conference, San Jose, California.

Commentator for the session “Fitful Starts Aloft: Cases in 1950s Aviation.”

Oct. 2001 Artefacts and the History of Technology: Military Technology, National

Museum of American History, Washington, DC. Session chair.

May 2001 Society for Military History conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Refereed

paper: “The End of the Army Space Program: Von Braun, Medaris and the

Transfer of ABMA to NASA, 1958-1959.”

Apr. 2001 Nazi Science and the Holocaust conference, Millersville University,

Millersville, Pa. Paper presentation: “Wernher von Braun, the SS and the

Concentration Camps: Questions of Moral, Political and Criminal

Responsibility.”

Jan. 2001 U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC. Panel participant, “The

Bombing of Auschwitz: Should the Allies Have Attempted It?”

July 2000 19. Dora-Kolloquium, University of Erfurt, Germany. Invited lecture:

“Wernher von Braun, die SS und Arbeit in den Konzentrationslagern: Fragen

von moralischer, politischer und krimineller Verantwortung.”

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Dec. 1999 Sigma Xi, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. Invited public

lecture: “Wernher von Braun and the Third Reich.”

Nov. 1999 Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh. Invited lecture: "Orbiter, Overflight

and the First U.S. Satellite: New Light on the Vanguard Decision."

Apr. 1999 Oregon State University, Horning Symposium. Invited public lecture:

“Wernher von Braun and the Third Reich.”

Dec. 1998 University of Pennsylvania, History and Sociology of Science Department.

Seminar presentation: “Wernher von Braun and the Third Reich.”

Nov. 1998 University of Alabama Huntsville. Invited public lecture: “Wernher von

Braun and the Third Reich.”

Oct. 1998 Society for the History of Technology conference, Baltimore, Maryland.

Commentator for the session “Explorations of Scientific Management:

Psychology, Photography and Home Economics,” and chairman of the

session “Evolution of Aerodynamics in the 20th

Century: Engineering or

Science?”

Oct. 1998 National Aerospace Conference, Dayton, Ohio. Presented a paper: “German

Spaceflight Advocacy from Weimar to Disney.”

June 1998 Historical Seminar on Contemporary Science and Technology, National Air

and Space Museum. Presented a talk: "Orbiter, Overflight and the First

Satellite: New Light on the Vanguard Decision."

June 1998 Canadian Historical Association convention, Ottawa. Participant in the panel

"The Thickening Fog of War: World War II, Professional Historians and the

Public Imagination."

Apr. 1998 Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. Invited lecture: "Vanguard:

Why NRL Won and Why Von Braun Lost."

Sep. 1997 History of Science and Medicine Seminar, The Johns Hopkins University,

Baltimore, MD. Invited talk: "Wernher von Braun: Problems of Biography

and the History of Technology."

Jun. 1997 Naval History Workshop 97, Naval Historical Center, Washington, DC.

Panel participant in "Writing Histories of Technology."

Jan. 1997 American Historical Association convention, New York. Organizer of the

session "Aviation, Business and Government Between the Wars," including a

paper by myself, "Rocket Aircraft and the ‘Turbojet Revolution’: The

Luftwaffe's Quest for High-Speed Flight, 1935-1939."

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Nov. 1996 Colgate University, Hamilton, New York. Invited lecture, "The Smithsonian

Enola Gay Affair: An Insider's View."

Aug. 1996 Society for the History of Technology conference, London. Commentator in

the session "Technological Failure: The Case of East Germany."

May 1996 International Space Development Conference, New York. "Peenemünde and

Wernher von Braun: History and Myth."

Oct. 1995 Society for the History of Technology conference, Charlottesville, Va. "Rolf

Engel vs. the German Army: A Nazi Career in Rocketry and Repression."

Oct. 1995 International Astronautical Federation Congress, Oslo, Norway. "The

Excluded: Hermann Oberth and Rudolf Nebel in the Third Reich."

Feb. 1995 U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC. Public lecture, "Why

was Auschwitz not Bombed?"

Oct. 1994 "The Eagle has Landed" at Auburn: A 25th

Anniversary Conference, Auburn,

AL. "Wernher von Braun: The Public Image," co-authored with Tom D.

Crouch.

Jan. 1994 Förderungsesellschaft Wissenschaftliche Neuvorhaben mbH, Berlin.

"Peenemünde: History and Myth."

Jan. 1994 Evangelische Akademie Thüringen/Kz-Gedenkstätte Mittelbau-Dora joint

conference, Neudietendorf and Nordhausen, Germany. "The Social and

Cultural Contexts of the Weimar Rocketry and Spaceflight Movement."

Oct. 1993 Society for the History of Technology convention, Washington, DC. "The

German Rocket Engineers and the Legacy of Peenemünde in Huntsville."

Oct. 1993 International Space History Symposium, NASA Headquarters, Washington,

DC. "Popular Space History and the `Huntsville School'."

Apr. 1993 National Air and Space Museum/U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum joint

symposium, "The Bombing of Auschwitz: Should the Allies Have Attempted

It?," Washington, DC. Co-organizer and commentator.

Mar. 1993 Sigma Xi chapter, National Institute of Standards and Technology,

Gaithersburg, MD. Public lecture, "The V-2, Peenemünde and Wernher von

Braun: Myths and Realities."

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Sep. 1992 World Space Congress (IAF/COSPAR joint meeting), Washington, DC.

“Heylandt's Rocket Cars and the V-2: A Little Known Chapter in the History

Rocket Technology," co-authored with Frank H. Winter.

May 1992 Yale-Smithsonian Seminar on Material Culture, New Haven, Conn. "The

‘Enola Gay,’ the Bomb and the National Air and Space Museum."

Mar. 1991 American Military Institute conference, Durham, North Carolina. "Hitler, the

V-2, and the Battle for Priority: Weapons Procurement and the German War

Economy, 1939-1943."

Mar. 1991 German Historical Institute, Washington, DC. "Hitler, the V-2 and the Battle

for Priority."

Dec. 1990 American Historical Association convention, New York. Organizer of the

session "Science and Technology under Hitler: New Perspectives," which

included a paper by myself, "The Guided Missile and the Third Reich:

Peenemünde and the Forging of a Technological Revolution."

Oct. 1990 Society for the History of Technology convention, Cleveland. Chair of the

session "Comparative Studies in Technology."

Aug. 1989 International Congress for the History of Science, Hamburg and Munich,

West Germany. "Peenemünde-Ost: The State, the Military and

Technological Change in the Third Reich."

Oct. 1988 Society for the History of Technology convention, Wilmington, Delaware.

"Weimar Culture and Futuristic Technology: The Rocketry and Spaceflight

Fad in Germany, 1923-1933."

Oct. 1985 New York State Association of European Historians meeting, Binghamton,

New York. "The Dialectic of Craft and Class: the Nuremberg Skilled

Metalworkers and their Unions, 1869-1905."

Nov. 1984 Duquesne History Forum, Pittsburgh. "The Dissolution of the Old Artisanal

Order: The Fall of the Journeymen's Associations in Nuremberg, 1830-

1868."

PROFESSIONAL AND MUSEUM SERVICE

Mar. 2015 Hosted “What’s New in Aerospace?” program in Moving Beyond Earth and

on NASA TV about “Training Underwater for Walking in Space.”

Nov. 2014 Member, PhD dissertation defense committee, Jennifer Levasseur, George

Mason University

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July 2014 Video interview by Voice of America for the 45th

anniversary of Apollo 11.

July 2014 Gave a public talk, “The Making of 2001” in the Wolf Trap Pre-Performance

Discussion series, before the National Symphony Orchestra accompanied

2001: A Space Odyssey in the Filene Center.

July 2014 Interviewed Jay Barbree about his book Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight,

broadcast on C-SPAN 2 Book TV in the series After Words.

July 2014 Co-organizer of the evening lecture in the Lockheed-Martin IMAX Theater,

“Exploring Pluto and its Satellites at the Solar System’s Frontier: New

Horizons, One Year and Counting.”

Mar. 2014 Lecturer, “A Short History of the National Air and Space Museum,”

undergraduate class, Catholic University of America.

2013-2014 Member, Program Committee, Mutual Concerns of Air and Space Museums

2014 conference

Dec. 2013 Lecturer, “First Mission to Pluto: The Origins and Voyage of New

Horizons,” Smithsonian Stars series, Einstein Planetarium, NASM.

Nov. 2013 Lecturer, “The Cold War and the Space Race” and “The Origins of

Spaceflight, 1857-1957,” in two classes, Washington & Jefferson College,

Washington, PA.

Oct. 2013 Lecturer, “The ‘Von Braun Paradigm’ and NASA’s Long-Term Planning for

Human Spaceflight,” Johns Hopkins University class.

Feb. 2013 Lecturer, “A Short History of the National Air and Space Museum,” Catholic

University of America class at NASM.

Nov. 2012 Interviewed for the “Museum Secrets” TV series on Robert Goddard and the

history of rocket technology.

Nov. 2012 Presented a talk via Skype, “From Berlin to Peenemünde to White Sands:

The Odyssey of Wernher von Braun and the V-2 Rocket,” to the Open the

Letter from Cloudcroft symposium, Cloudcroft, New Mexico.

Apr. 2012 Lecturer, “The Smithsonian, NASM and U.S. National Identity,” to

Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany, class at NASM.

Feb. 2012 Lecturer, “A Short History of the National Air and Space Museum,” Catholic

University of America, Washington, DC.

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Feb. 2012 Interviewed by Tribune Newspapers, CBC, CTV, BBC-TV America and its

Iranian service, and NHK Japan for John Glenn 50th

anniversary.

Jan. 2012 Interviewed by Alabama Public TV for a documentary on Wernher von

Braun’s 100th

birthday. Broadcast March 2013 as “Missile to Moon” on

APT.

Oct. 2011 Lecturer, “The National Air and Space Museum; An Autobiography,”

College Park Aviation Museum, College Park, MD.

Sep. 2011 Lecturer on Wernher von Braun, Johns Hopkins University course,

“Spaceflight and Society,” Baltimore, MD.

Sep. 2011 Lecturer, “Gemini: Key Stepping Stone for Apollo,” Gemini XLV

symposium, Glenn L. Martin Museum, Middle River, MD.

Aug. 2011 Lecturer, “A Short History of the National Air and Space Museum,” Fairfax

Rotary Club, Fairfax, VA.

2011-2012 Committee member, Sacknoff Prize for Space History (Quest magazine).

July 2011 Lecturer, “The National Air and Space Museum; An Autobiography,”

National Air and Space Museum, Moving Beyond Earth exhibit.

May 2011 Lecturer, “The National Air and Space Museum; An Autobiography,”

Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia.

Apr. 2011 Lecturer, “The National Air and Space Museum; An Autobiography,”

Littleton Museum, Littleton, Colorado (Smithsonian Affiliate).

Mar. 2011 Lecturer, “The National Air and Space Museum; An Autobiography,”

Lakeview Museum, Peoria, Illinois (Smithsonian Affiliate).

Dec. 2010 Lecturer, “The National Air and Space Museum; An Autobiography,”

National Air and Space Museum, Udvar-Hazy Center.

Nov. 2010 Lecturer, “The National Air and Space Museum; An Autobiography,”

National Air and Space Museum, Moving Beyond Earth exhibit.

Oct. 2010 Introduced a film, “My Grandfather was a Nazi Scientist,” at the German-

American Heritage Museum, Washington, DC.

2010 Advisor and on-screen interviewee for an Austrian television documentary

about Hanna Reitsch.

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July 2009 Lecturer, “Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War,” to a student

group at NASM.

June 2009 Delivered public lecture, “Wernher von Braun and National Socialism,” at

the Wernher von Braun-Schule, Neuhof, Germany; participated in a Berlin

book launch event for German edition of Von Braun and gave media

interviews, including Berlin-Brandenburg TV.

2008-9 Scholarly advisor and on-screen interviewee for a 90-minute TV biography

of Wernher von Braun, broadcast by the German ZDF network in July 2009.

Nov. 2008 Lecturer in the “Far Out Friday” series at the Adler Planetarium, Chicago:

“Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War.”

June-July 2008 Arranged for NASA’s full-scale model of the Mars Phoenix Lander to be

exhibited at NASM.

June-July 2008 Conference presenter and moderator in the NASA section of the Smithsonian

Folklife Festival.

June 2008- Curator, rockets and missiles to 1945 (subsumes almost all of the earlier

German collection, adds Goddard, US and international artifacts)

Mar. 2008 Slovenian Embassy, Washington, DC. Spoke in the symposium, “The

Problem of Space Travel,” on the Hermann Potočnik/Noordung and Wernher

von Braun.

Feb. 2008 Lecture series at the University of Alabama-Huntsville: “Von Braun:

Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War,” “Space Hero or Nazi Villain?:

Wernher von Braun as Cold-War Icon,” plus three class visits.

Dec. 2007 On-screen interviewee for “Wunderwaffen,” a program on the ZDF German

TV network.

Oct. ‘07-Apr. ‘08 “Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War,” public talks on the book

at the Treasury Executive Institute, NASM Works-in-Progress series, Kansas

Cosmosphere and Space Center, Kansas City Public Library, and the

Brookings Institution.

Oct. 2007 Appearances on NPR’s radio programs The Diane Rehm Show and Talk of

the Nation Science Friday regarding Von Braun.

Aug. 2007 On-screen interviewee for PBS Nova documentary on Sputnik broadcast

November 2007.

Jan. 2007- Jan. 2011 Chair, NASM Space History Division

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Mar. 2005 On-screen interviewee for a Bulgarian TV documentary on Bulgarians in

aerospace history, and for a German TV documentary on Charles Lindbergh.

Feb. 2005 On-screen interviewee for a V-2 program for the History Channel series

“Man, Moment, Machine.”

Oct. 2004 On-screen interviewee for Korean Broadcasting System TV program on fuel

cells.

Aug.-Nov. 2004 Scholarly advisor for a ZDF (Second German Television) one-hour program

on Wernher von Braun, broadcast Nov. 23, 2004.

Mar. 2004 External examiner, PhD defense committee, Royal Military College,

Kingston, Ontario, for Andrew J. Godefroy.

2004-07 Organizer and scheduler, Curator’s Choice lectures at Udvar-Hazy Center.

2004-07 Space History Division representative to the NASM Professional

Accomplishments Review Committee (PAEC), a peer review body for

Museum staff.

2003-07, 2011- Curator, Mercury and Gemini spacecraft and components collection.

2003 On-screen interviewee for a Discovery Channel Canada documentary series,

“Rocket Science.”

2002-04 Lead curator for the Rockets and Missiles exhibit station and artifact display

at the McDonnell Space Hangar, Stephen F. Udvar-Hazy Center of NASM.

2002-03 On-screen interviewee for a History Television (Canada) documentary on the

V-2 and slave labor.

2002-03 Aided the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Ivan Dee Publishers in

editing André Sellier’s History of the Dora Camp, and contributed the

“Preface.”

Nov. 2002 Appeared on C-SPAN Washington Journal for a live phone-in session on the

history of spaceflight.

2001-02 Scholarly advisor and on-screen interviewee, History Channel documentary,

“Nordhausen V-2 Rocket Factory,” and for The Learning Channel

documentary “The Rocket’s Red Glare.”

1999-2001 Editorial Board Member, Osiris (an annual journal of the History of Science

Society).

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1999-2004 Fellowships coordinator, NASM Space History Division.

1999-2008 Curator, German rockets and missiles collection.

1998-99 Scholarly advisor and on-screen interviewee, BBC Biography

documentary on Wernher von Braun.

1996-98 SHOT representative to the NASA/AHA Aerospace History Fellowship

committee.

1996-2002 Organizer and host of the Works-in-Progress lecture series at NASM.

1996-2004 Co-organizer and scheduler of the Curator’s Choice public lecture series at

NASM.

1996-97 Scholarly advisor and on-screen interviewee, History Channel documentary

series, “Rockets!”

1996-2008 Organizer and host of the Historical Seminar on Contemporary Science and

Technology.

1994-99 Fellowships co-ordinator, NASM Aeronautics Division.

1994-2006 Member, Advisory Board to the Peenemünde project, Mecklenburg-

Vorpommern state government, Germany.

1992-99 Curator, German World War II aircraft collection and World War II Aviation

gallery, NASM Aeronautics Division.

1992-95 Curator, Enola Gay exhibition (until cancellation of first exhibit, January

1995).

1992-94 Curator of "Wonder Weapon?: The Arado Ar 234 Blitz," the second exhibit

in the "Air Power in World War II" series, opening Oct. 1993.

1992-94 Member and Chairman (1994), History of Science and Technology

Fellowships Committee, SI Office of Fellowships and Grants.

1992-93 Member, Local Arrangements Committee for the 1993 SHOT Annual

Meeting in Washington, DC.

1991-93 Curator of "Republic P-47 Thunderbolt," the first exhibit in the "Air Power

in World War II" series, opening May 1992.

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HONORS AND AWARDS

2013 2012 Secretary’s Research Prize, Smithsonian Institution, for the article (co-

authored with David DeVorkin) “Space Artifact or Nazi Weapon?:

Displaying the Smithsonian’s V-2 Missile, 1976-1989.”

2011 Society of American Military Engineers’ Northern Virginia Post Annual

Journalism Award.

2009 Incentive award for outstanding performance, National Air and Space

Museum.

2008 2007 Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award of the American

Astronautical Society for Von Braun.

2008 Winner of a Secretary’s Research Prize, Smithsonian Institution, for Von

Braun.

2008 Finalist in Biography, Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, for Von Braun.

2008 Richard W. Leopold Prize of the Organization of American Historians (best

book by a government historian) for Von Braun: Dreamer of Space,

Engineer of War.

2008 Eminent Scholar, Humanities Center, University of Alabama Huntsville.

2008 Incentive award and Merit Step Increase for outstanding performance,

National Air and Space Museum.

2007 Merit Step Increase for outstanding performance, National Air and Space

Museum.

2006 Time-off award for outstanding performance, National Air and Space

Museum.

2005 Merit Step Increase for outstanding performance, National Air and Space

Museum.

2003-05 Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Studies Grant for research on “Wernher

von Braun, 1960-1977.”

2000, 2001 Time-off awards for outstanding performance, National Air and Space

Museum.

1998-99 Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Studies Grant for research on “Wernher

von Braun, 1912-1960.”

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1997 Incentive award for outstanding performance, National Air and Space

Museum.

1997 Dexter Prize of the Society for the History of Technology for The Rocket and

the Reich. Awarded for "an outstanding book in the history of technology."

1995 History Manuscript Award of the American Institute of Aeronautics and

Astronautics for The Rocket and the Reich.

1989-90 National Science Foundation Scholar's Award, History of Science and

Technology Program.

1989-90 Smithsonian Postdoctoral Fellowship, National Air and Space Museum,

Smithsonian Institution.

1989 Travel grant for the International Congress of the History of Science,

Hamburg and Munich, from the U.S. National Committee of the

International Union for the History and Philosophy of Science.

1988-89 A. Verville Fellowship, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian

Institution.

1982-83 The Johns Hopkins University Graduate Fellowship.

1980-82 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral

Fellowship.

1978-80 The Johns Hopkins University Graduate Fellowship and Junior

Instructorship.

1974-76 University of British Columbia Graduate Fellowships and Summer

Scholarship.