This week we speak to Dr. Margaret Weitekamp, the Space History Department Chair at the Smithsonian Institution and the curator of the Air and Space Museum’s social and Cultural history of spaceflight collection, more than 5,000 artefacts that include space memorabilia and space science fiction objects. Dr. Weitekamp also recently published Space Craze: America’s Enduring Fascination with Real and Imagined Spaceflight, a wonderful book which we highly recommend. 

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Dr. Margaret A. Weitekamp:

https://airandspace.si.edu/people/staff/margaret-weitekamp

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/margaretweitekamp/

Space Craze: https://airandspace.si.edu/research/publications/space-craze

Right Stuff, Wrong Sex: https://airandspace.si.edu/research/publications/right-stuff-wrong-sex-americas-first-women-space-program 

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