Museum Lecture Series

National Museum of the U.S. Air Force

The Lecture Series features an exciting array of speakers who impart a diversity of perspectives on USAF heritage. Lecturers include active duty or retired military members, specialists in research, development and technology, and historians and authors. read less
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Museum Lecture Series 64: Manned Orbiting Laboratory Panel
30-12-2015
Museum Lecture Series 64: Manned Orbiting Laboratory Panel
Space pioneers share their experiences during a presentation titled “The Dorian Files Revealed: The Manned Orbiting Laboratory Crew Members’ Secret Mission in Space.” During the presentation, the National Reconnaissance Office revealed information about recently declassified elements of the program.

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Museum Lecture Series 64: Manned Orbiting Laboratory Panel
30-12-2015
Museum Lecture Series 64: Manned Orbiting Laboratory Panel
Space pioneers share their experiences during a presentation titled “The Dorian Files Revealed: The Manned Orbiting Laboratory Crew Members’ Secret Mission in Space.” During the presentation, the National Reconnaissance Office revealed information about recently declassified elements of the program.
Museum Lecture Series 65: Evolution of the F-22 Raptor
30-12-2015
Museum Lecture Series 65: Evolution of the F-22 Raptor
Former test pilot Paul Metz discusses the evolution of the F-22 Raptor, tracing the military, geo-political and technical forces that drove the more than 30-year search for an Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF).
Museum Lecture Series 56: Contributions USAF Special Operations Forces Have Made to the Development of Air and Space Power, 1942 to 2012
15-09-2015
Museum Lecture Series 56: Contributions USAF Special Operations Forces Have Made to the Development of Air and Space Power, 1942 to 2012
Air Force Special Operations Command historian Herbert A. Mason Jr. discusses the "Contributions USAF Special Operations Forces Have Made to the Development of Air and Space Power, 1942 to 2012."
Museum Lecture Series 57: America's SECRET MiG Squadron
15-09-2015
Museum Lecture Series 57: America's SECRET MiG Squadron
Retired Col. Gaillard R. Peck Jr. addresses the 10-year period that the U.S. Air Force secretly trained Air Force, Navy and Marine fighter aircrews in an advanced joint training program against actual Soviet MiG jet fighters.
Museum Lecture Series 58: Return and renewal with honor: Messages for all of us
15-09-2015
Museum Lecture Series 58: Return and renewal with honor: Messages for all of us
Retired Maj. Gen. John Borling shares his experiences as a prisoner of war, along with the poetry and prose he composed and memorized.
Museum Lecture Series 59: The US Air Force's mission to help create Afghan air power
15-09-2015
Museum Lecture Series 59: The US Air Force's mission to help create Afghan air power
Col. Robert A. Strasser and Lt. Col. Tay W. Johannes discuss experiences in building the Afghan Air Force, including resources, organizational interactions, mission objectives and how historical events have influenced decision making.
Museum Lecture Series 60: The Hexagon KH-9 Reconnaissance Satellite
15-09-2015
Museum Lecture Series 60: The Hexagon KH-9 Reconnaissance Satellite
Phil Pressel discusses the last orbiting reconnaissance camera that used film for photography and how it played an important part in U.S. intelligence and aerospace history.
Museum Lecture Series 62: Pushing the Envelope: Vision and Genius in the R&D Gallery
15-09-2015
Museum Lecture Series 62: Pushing the Envelope: Vision and Genius in the R&D Gallery
Dr. Squire L. Brown discusses the museum’s Research & Development Gallery, which exhibits a unique collection of aircraft that challenged the imagination and pushed the boundaries of flight.
Museum Lecture Series 61: Titan II - The Few but the Powerful
15-09-2015
Museum Lecture Series 61: Titan II - The Few but the Powerful
Dr. David K. Stumpf gives an overview of the Titan II program, culminating in a discussion of just how close a Soviet weapon would have had to come to incapacitate the silo.
Museum Lecture Series 63: B-29 Bockscar
15-09-2015
Museum Lecture Series 63: B-29 Bockscar
Retired Col. Joseph Sweeney, the son of Bockscar pilot Gen. Charles Sweeney who was at the controls when the aircraft dropped the bomb on Aug. 9, 1945, will speak about his father and World War II.
Museum Lecture Series 55: 20 Years as an Air Force photojournalist
15-09-2015
Museum Lecture Series 55: 20 Years as an Air Force photojournalist
Six-time “Military Photographer of the Year” Master Sgt. Jeremy T. Lock discusses how he became a photojournalist in the Air Force and where it has taken him, what military photojournalists do, his latest projects and where photojournalism is going in the future.
Museum Lecture Series 54: America's Canine Heroes: The story of military working dogs
15-09-2015
Museum Lecture Series 54: America's Canine Heroes: The story of military working dogs
Dogster.com editor/writer Maria Goodavage discusses the four-legged heroes who serve our country, what they bring to the fight, how they do it and the deep bonds they form with those who work with them.
Museum Lecture Series 53: My True Course
15-09-2015
Museum Lecture Series 53: My True Course
Dutch Van Kirk, the navigator from the B-29 Enola Gay, the aircraft that dropped the world's first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, gives a first-hand perspective of one of World War II's most famous missions.
Museum Lecture Series 52: The Air Force in Space -- and on the Moon: The Flights of Apollo 9 and Apollo 15
15-09-2015
Museum Lecture Series 52: The Air Force in Space -- and on the Moon: The Flights of Apollo 9 and Apollo 15
Former NASA astronaut and retired Air Force colonel David R. Scott talks about his three space missions: Gemini VIII, Apollo 9 and Apollo 15.
Museum Lecture Series 51: The Secret World of Space Reconnaissance
15-09-2015
Museum Lecture Series 51: The Secret World of Space Reconnaissance
Learn about the Gambit 1 KH-7, Gambit 3 KH-8 and Hexagon KH-9 reconnaissance satellites during this presentation by CIA officers Dr. Robert A. McDonald and Dr. James D. Outzen.
Museum Lecture Series 50: Air Force One - Zero Failure
15-09-2015
Museum Lecture Series 50: Air Force One - Zero Failure
(Ret.) Col. Mark W. Tillman, the nation’s 12th presidential pilot, gives a first-hand account of remarkable moments in history with his experience as pilot and commander of Air Force One from 2001-2009.
Museum Lecture Series 49: The Tuskegee Airmen: An Illustrated History, 1939-1949
15-09-2015
Museum Lecture Series 49: The Tuskegee Airmen: An Illustrated History, 1939-1949
Dr. Daniel L. Haulman, an historian with Air Force Historical Research Agency, discusses the Tuskegee Airmen, who were for decades virtually ignored in American military history and have since become very famous, culminating in early 2007 with the awarding of the Congressional Gold Medal.
Museum Lecture Series 48: Six months with a critical care air transport team RN in Afghanistan
14-09-2015
Museum Lecture Series 48: Six months with a critical care air transport team RN in Afghanistan
Lt. Col. Deborah Lehker speaks about her deployment to Kandahar, Afghanistan, as a Critical Care Air Transport Team (CCATT) nurse and the goal of enhancing patient care.
Museum Lecture Series 47: Aircraft and Aces: The fight for air superiority over Korea, 1950-1953
14-09-2015
Museum Lecture Series 47: Aircraft and Aces: The fight for air superiority over Korea, 1950-1953
Dr. Kenneth P. Werrell discusses the Korean War, which saw the first and largest jet-versus-jet fighter conflict of all time. Despite many disadvantages, American pilots won an overwhelming victory, which was critical in the outcome of the war.
Museum Lecture Series 46: Covert Air Reconnaissance in Europe: USAFE operations, 1946-1990
14-09-2015
Museum Lecture Series 46: Covert Air Reconnaissance in Europe: USAFE operations, 1946-1990
Lt. Col. (Ret.) John Bessette, who flew as a navigator and served in air refueling, airlift and gunship assignments, presents “Covert Air Reconnaissance in Europe: USAFE Operations, 1946-1990.”