The NASA/HSS fellowships in aerospace history are intended to support scholarly research projects in aerospace history

These annual fellowships grant the opportunity to engage in significant and sustained advanced research in all aspects of the history of aerospace from the earliest human interest in flight to the present including cultural and intellectual history economic history history of law and public policy and the history of science engineering and management. Among the resources available to historians of space many are at the NASA archives. These include materials related to the international geophysical year and NASA missions as well as to the history of the institution itself. Fellows will be encouraged to take advantage of these resources at NASA archives as well as at the national archives the national academies of science the library of congress the smithsonian air and space museum and other collections in the washington DC area. Additionally fellows will be expected to write a report and present a public lecture on the fellowship experience. NASA s history office is dedicated to documenting and preserving the agency s history. The research resulting from the NASA/HSS aerospace history fellowships will contribute to the two key functions of the NASA history office: widely disseminating aerospace information and helping NASA managers to understand and learn from past successes and failures.