NASA History Talk:
âSpace Craze: Americaâs Enduring Fascination with Real and Imagined Spaceflightâ
Time/Date/Location: noon â 1
pm ET, Wednesday March 15, virtual via MS
Teams link (no prior registration necessary)
Speaker:
Margaret Weitekamp
Contact: Steve Garber (stephen.j.garber@nasa.gov)
or hq-histinfo@nasa.gov
Description:
Join Dr. Margaret Weitekamp, chair of the Department of Space History at the Smithsonianâs National Air and Space Museum, as she discusses her recent book,
Space Craze: Americaâs Enduring Fascination with Real and Imagined Spaceflight (Smithsonian Books, 2022). Written based on Weitekampâs experience working with the Museumâs collections of spaceflight memorabilia and space science fiction objects,
Space Craze surveys the long history of spaceflight, from the formative stories told by Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon, to the historic flights of John Glenn and the Apollo astronauts, through the Space Shuttle era to the present. How does material culture
â things such as toys, pins, buttons, mugs, and mission patches â illuminate the story of spaceflight as a particularly American endeavor?
Stephen Garber
(he/him)
NASA History Division
Office of Communications
NASA Headquarters
Mary W. Jackson Building, Room 5P25
Washington, DC 20546
202-358-0385
