History Manuscript Award

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The History Manuscript Award is presented for the best historical manuscript dealing with the science, technology, and/or impact of aeronautics and astronautics on society. The purpose of the award is to provide professional recognition to an author who makes a major and original contribution to the history of aeronautics or astronautics.

This award is now a Committee Award. Please contact Michael Lagana, Director, Technical & Integration Communities, at [email protected] for further information, deadlines, and nomination submissions.

Award Recipients

2024

  • Aaron M Bateman
    Awarded
    Award: 2024 AIAA History Manuscript Award
    AIAA Citation: Book: A Space Renaissance: The Strategic Defense Initiative and the Arms Race

2023

  • Dr Cathleen Susan Lewis
    Awarded
    Award: 2023 AIAA History Manuscript Award
    AIAA Citation: Manuscript: Cosmonaut: A Cultural History

2020

  • Mr. Stephen J Garber
    NASA Headquarters
    Awarded
    Award: “Untethering Spaceflight: A History of U.S. Space Exploration Policy 1999-2004”
    AIAA Citation: Presented at 2020 AIAA SciTech
  • Glen R Asner
    Awarded
    Award: “Untethering Spaceflight: A History of U.S. Space Exploration Policy 1999-2004”
    AIAA Citation: Presented at 2020 AIAA SciTech

2019

  • Anthony Chong
    Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems
    Awarded
    Award: Flying Wings & Radical Things: Northrop’s Secret Aerospace Projects & Concepts 1939-1994
    AIAA Citation: Flying Wings & Radical Things: Northrop’s Secret Aerospace Projects & Concepts 1939-1994

2018

  • Mrs. Amy P Kaminski
    White House
    Awarded
    Award: Sharing the Shuttle with America: NASA and Public Engagement After Apollo
    AIAA Citation: Sharing the Shuttle with America: NASA and Public Engagement After Apollo

2017

  • Dr Layne Karafantis
    Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum
    Awarded
    AIAA Citation: Fort he book, Under Control: Constructing the Nerve Centers of the Cold War

2016

  • Dr Alexander C MacDonald
    Awarded
    AIAA Citation: For the manuscript: The Long Space Age: An Economic Perspective on the History of the American Space Exploration

2015

  • Frederick A Johnsen
    Awarded
    AIAA Citation: Sweeping Forward

2014

  • Lawrence R Benson
    Awarded
    AIAA Citation: Quieting the Boom

2013

  • Bruce Larrimer
    Larrimer Associates
    Awarded
    AIAA Citation: Thinking Obliquely: Robert T. Jones, His Oblique Wing and Its Legacy

2012

  • R. Cargill Hall
    Awarded
    AIAA Citation: “Ace of Chaos: Frank G. Tinker and the Air War In Spain.”

2011

  • Dr Roger D Launius
    Launius Historical Services
    Awarded
    AIAA Citation: “Coming Home: Reentry and Recovery from Space.”

2007

  • Dr Thor Hogan
    The Rand Corporation
    Awarded
    AIAA Citation: Mars Wars

2006

  • Mr. John D Hunley
    Awarded
    AIAA Citation: “The Development of Propulsion Technology for U.S. Space-Launch Vehicles.”

2005

  • Mr. Mark D Bowles
    Tech Pro
    Awarded
    AIAA Citation: “The Reactor in the Garden: NASA’s Nuclear Frontier at Plumbrook Station”

2004

  • Mr. Mark D Bowles
    Tech Pro
    Awarded
    AIAA Citation: “Celestial Fire: The Centaur Upper Stage Rocket, 1958-2002”

2003

  • Dr Roger D Launius
    Launius Historical Services
    Awarded
    AIAA Citation: Base Camp to the Stars: The Space Station in the Twentieth Century

2001

  • Mr. Stephen P Waring
    The University of Alabama
    Awarded
    AIAA Citation: “Power to Explore: A History of Marshall Space Flight Center, 1960-1990”
  • Andrew J Dunar
    Awarded
    AIAA Citation: “Power to Explore: A History of Marshall Space Flight Center, 1960-1990”
  • Lt Col Dik A Daso, PhD
    National Air & Space Museum
    Awarded
    Award: 2001 AIAA History Manuscript Award

1999

  • Dr Deborah G Douglas
    Massachusettes Institute of Technology
    Awarded

1998

  • Asif Siddiqi
    Awarded
    AIAA Citation: The Early Years of Space Exploration in the Soviet Union

1997

  • Joseph N Tartarewicz
    Awarded
    AIAA Citation: Exploring the Solar System: The History of Planetary Geosciences Since Galieo

1995

  • Mr. Michael J Neufeld
    National Air & Space Museum
    Awarded
    AIAA Citation: The Rocket and the Reich

1994

  • E Ralph Rundell
    Awarded
    AIAA Citation: The Hunt for Warrior’s Wings

1993

  • Donald C Elder
    Awarded
    AIAA Citation: From Behind the Eight-Ball: The Story of Echo I

1987

  • Fred E Weick
    Awarded
    AIAA Citation: Growing up with Flight: The Memoirs of Aeronautical Engineering Fred E. Weick, Volume I
  • Mr James R Hansen
    Auburn University
    Awarded
    AIAA Citation: Growing up with Flight: The Memoirs of Aeronautical Engineering Fred E. Weick, Volume I

1984

  • Dr Scott Pace
    Space Policy Institute
    Awarded
    AIAA Citation: Engineering Design and Political Choice: The Space Shuttle 1969-1972

1981

  • E J W Gregory
    Awarded
    AIAA Citation: Radio Takes Flight

1980

  • Richard Hirsh
    Awarded
    AIAA Citation: Science, Technology, and Public Policy: The Case of X-Ray Astronomy, 1959-1972

1979

  • Dr Roger E Bilstein
    University of Houston-Clear Lake
    Awarded
    AIAA Citation: Stages to Space: A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicles

1978

  • Dr Edward C Ezell
    Smithsonian Institution
    Awarded
    AIAA Citation: Vikings Search for Landing Sites on Mars

1977

  • Dr Tom D Crouch
    National Air & Space Museum
    Awarded
    AIAA Citation: To Ride the Fractious Horse: The American Aeronautical Community and the Problem of Heavier-Than-Air Flight, 1875-1905

1975

  • Dr Richard P Hallion
    Fellow AIAA, Fellow RAeS, Fellow RHistS
    Awarded
    AIAA Citation: Legacy of Flight: The Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the promotion of aeronautics and the formative era of American aviation

1973

  • William M Leary Jr.
    Awarded
    AIAA Citation: The Dragon’s Wings: The China National Aviation Corporation and the Development of Commercial Aviation in China

1972

  • Mr. Richard K Smith
    Awarded
    AIAA Citation: First Across - U.S. Navy Trans-Atlantic Flight of 1919

1971

  • Richard C. Lukas
    Awarded
    AIAA Citation: Eagles East: The Army Air Force and the Soviet Union

1969

  • Milton Lomask
    Awarded
    AIAA Citation: A History of Project Vanguard
  • Constance McLaughlin Green
    Awarded
    AIAA Citation: A History of Project Vanguard