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Museum of Flight Lecture/Book Signing Looks at Real and Imagined Spaceships

SEATTLE – On July 27, award-winning author Ron Miller and new Smithsonian coauthors Matthew Shindell and Margaret Weitekamp will lead a visual journey through the history of the spaceship in our collective imagination and in reality. Their program is based upon the new edition of their popular book, Spaceships: An Illustrated History of the Real and the Imagined. A book signing follows the program. Miller will be attending virtually, but signed bookplates will be provided so the books will bear the signatures of all three authors.

The 2 p.m. event is presented as part of the Museum’s new Home Beyond Earth exhibition and is free with general admission.

Spaceships: An Illustrated History of the Real and the Imagined
The exquisitely detailed book charts the ubiquity of spaceships in the golden age of space travel (1950s and ’60s) and their broad influence on popular art, television, film and literature. The new edition includes material on Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne, Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch Systems, Bigelow Aerospace’s B330 inflatable space stations, SpaceX’s Falcon 9, future Mars exploration, moon landers and interstellar ships.

For Museum information, please call 206-764-5720 or visit www.museumofflight.org