About AIR&SPACE

Magazine Staff

Editor
Linda Musser Shiner

Art Director
Ted Lopez

Executive Editor
Paul Hoversten

Senior Editors
Tony Reichhardt
Patricia Trenner

Senior Associate Editor
Perry Turner

Associate Editors
Michael Klesius
Rebecca Maksel
Diane Tedeschi

Photography and Illustrations Editor
Caroline Sheen

Web Editor
Tony Reichhardt

Researcher
Roger A. Mola

Founding Editor
George C. Larson

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS

Roger Bilstein
William E. Burrows
Tom Crouch
David DeVorkin
Freeman Dyson
Daniel Ford
Greg Freiherr
William Gregory
Dan Hagedorn
R. Cargill Hall
Richard Hallion
Jim Hansen
Gregg Herken
Nick Komons

Eric Long
Stephen Maran
Laurence Marschall
Ted Maxwell
Marshall Michel
Ron Miller
Brian Nicklas
James Oberg
Dominick Pisano
George Robinson
Chad Slattery
Marcia Smith
Stephan Wilkinson

Editorial: (202) 633-6070
e-mail: editors@si.edu

Air & Space/Smithsonian (ISSN 0886-2257) is published bimonthly by Smithsonian Enterprises, MRC 513, PO Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013-7012. We may occasionally publish extra issues. Periodical postage paid at Washington, DC, and additional mailing offices.

POSTMASTER: Send change of address to AIR & SPACE/Smithsonian, PO Box 62080, Tampa, FL 33662-0808. Printed in the USA. Canadian publication agreement no. 40039324. Canadian return address: Brokers Worldwide, PO Box 1051, Fort Erie, ON L2A 6C7 Canada.

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Director, Smithsonian Media
Thomas Ott

Executive Assistant to the President
James A. Babcock

General Manager
Alan Chu

Group Publisher
Jennifer Hicks

Chief Digital Officer
Bill Allman

Advertising
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Associate Publisher/Advertising Director
Christopher P. Wightman

Account Managers
New York: Meryle Lowenthal, Elise I. Boeger
Northeast: Sarah Herring
Midwest: Susan Welter
Detroit: Keith Cunningham
Southwest: Darynda Jenkins
Southeast: Kelly Hediger
West Coast: Charles Carroll, Kelly D. Maier
Caribbean / Central America: Al Nadal
Mexico: Elsie Mendez Enriquez
Canada: Richard Brown, David Seaberg, Greg M. Smith
Japan: Yoshinori Ikeda, Shigenori Nagatomo
Thailand: Yvan Van Outrive, Ja Pipatra
Korea: S.S. Song
Direct Response: MI Media Services, LLC, Marie Isabelle

Marketing/Research
Judy Glassman, Marketing Director
Natalie Ryan, Associate Art Director
Ellyn L. Hurwitz, Associate Marketing Director
Margaret Taylor, Associate Marketing Manager
Joe Battle, Promotion Coordinator
Marilyn Resciniti, Research Manager

Consumer Marketing
Lisa Dunham, Consumer Marketing Director
Timothy M. Smith, Planning Director
Andrea Sole, Fulfillment Director
Susan Warner, Renewals and Gift Director
Lori Paldino, New Business Director
Jonathan Balangon, Gifts Manager
Stephanie Petta, Assistant New Business Manager
Cara Klewin, Renewals Marketing Coordinator

Online Publishing Group
Jennifer L. Bock, Manager, Online Marketing and Analysis
Bilikya Schiller, Senior Web Designer
Damie B. Malone, Tony Rosenberger, Web Developers
Kelly Durkin, Senior Web Producer
Cheryl Carlin, Web Programmer / Developer
Jamie Simon, Project Manager

Manufacturing
Sarah D. Kingsley, Director
Katherine Balch, Prepress Director
Frank Matthew Hale II, Prepress Manager
Marie Koller, Prepress Manager
Penie Atherton-Hunt, Adv. Systems Manager

Business Office
Ed Dequina, Business Manager
Katia Judina, Business Analyst
Joanne Hubbard, Accountant

Smithsonian Enterprises
Thomas Ott, President

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