The National Air and Space Museum: Air
- ISBN-10
- 055301384X
- ISBN-13
- 9780553013849
- Series
- The National Air and Space Museum
- Category
- Reference / General
- Pages
- 152
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1982
- Publisher
- Bantam Books
- Author
- Courtlandt Dixon Barnes Bryan
Description
Public Information Officer Lynne Murphy , her successor Rita Bobowski , and Staff Assistant Louise Hull provided ... Flint and Tom D. Crouch , Curators of Astronautics , and Gregory P. Kennedy and Walter J. Dillon , Assistant Curators .
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