Curtis Peebles is an aerospacehistorian for the Smithsonian Institution and the author of several books. Look up aerospace in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A historian is a person who studies history. ... The Smithsonian Institution Building or Castle on the National Mall serves as the Institutions headquarters. ...
Books
Watch the Skies! A Chronicle of the Flying Saucer Myth, 1994. Smithsonian Institution. ISBN 1-56098-343-4
Asteroids: a History, 2001, Smithsonian Institution Press, ISBN 1-56098-982-3 (or 2000, ISBN 1-56098-389-2).
Twilight Warriors: Covert Air Operatrions Against the USSR, 2005, Naval Institute Press, ISBN 1591146607
The Moby Dick Project: Reconnaissance Balloons over Russia, 1991, Smithsonian Books, ISBN: 1-56098-025-7
Dark Eagles: A History of Top Secret U.S. Aircraft Programs, 1997.
Shadow Flights
Guardians: Strategic Reconnaissance Satellites
Battle for Space
High Frontier: The U.S. Air Force and the Military Space Program, 1997.
The Corona Project: America's First Spy Satellites, Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1557506884.
Flying Without Wings: NASA Lifting Bodies and the Birth of the Space Shuttle (Smithsonian History of Aviation and Spaceflight) (with Milton O. Thompson), 1999
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