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SUMMARY:Women in Aerospace: Stories from the Smithsonian Collection 
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with Smithsonian Affiliations. \nFREE with registration. REGISTER HERE.\nDr. Margaret Weitekamp has researched and written on how a groundswell of support helped create a Lego set representing women’s contributions to aerospace. Join us for a discussion of how women have worked from the very beginning of aviation to innovate\, and how museums have documented their stories.  \n\n\nFeaturing:  \n\n\nMargaret Weitekamp\, PhD\, Curator and Department Chair\, Space History Department\, National Air and Space Museum.  \n\nIn addition to serving as the department chair\, Dr. Margaret A. Weitekamp curates the Museum’s social and cultural history of spaceflight collection\, more than 5\,000 artifacts that include space memorabilia and space science fiction objects. These everyday mementos of the space age—which include toys and games\, medals and awards\, buttons and pins\, as well as comics and trading cards—complete the story about spaceflight told by the Museum’s collection of space hardware and technologies. \n\n\nWeitekamp earned a BA from the University of Pittsburgh and an MA and PhD in history from Cornell University. During her graduate work\, she was a Mellon fellow in the humanities and spent a year in residence at the NASA Headquarters History Office in Washington\, D.C. as the American Historical Association / NASA Aerospace History Fellow. Before joining the Smithsonian\, Weitekamp taught in the Women’s Studies Program at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva\, New York. \n\n\nShe is the author of numerous scholar articles as well as Right Stuff\, Wrong Sex: America’s First Women in Space Program\, which won the Eugene M. Emme Award for Astronautical Literature from the American Astronautical Society. In addition\, she wrote an award-winning children’s picture book Pluto’s Secret: An Icy World’s Tale of Discovery (Abrams Books for Young Readers\, 2013)\, in collaboration with David DeVorkin and illustrated by Diane Kidd. With Anne Collins Goodyear\, she co-edited the ninth volume in the Artefacts series on the material culture of science and technology\, Analyzing Art and Aesthetics (Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press\, 2013). She is currently completing a new book project\, a social and cultural history of space memorabilia.  \n \n\nPresented by Smithsonian Affiliations\, in collaboration with the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum and Smithsonian Affiliate organizations across the country.  \nImage credit:The original prototypes of the LEGO® Ideas “Women of NASA” set displayed in front of the Apollo Lunar Module in the Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington\, DC\, August 20\, 2018. Credit: National Air and Space Museum Picture by Jennifer Brundage (Smithsonian)
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