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 informat

Museum Lecture Series 65: Evolution of the F-22 Raptor

Dec 30th, 2015

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

Sep 15th, 2015

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

Sep 15th, 2015

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

Sep 15th, 2015

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

Sep 15th, 2015

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

Sep 15th, 2015

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

Sep 15th, 2015

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

Sep 15th, 2015

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

Sep 15th, 2015

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

Sep 15th, 2015

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 g

Museum Lecture Series 54: America's Canine Heroes: The story of military working dogs

Sep 15th, 2015

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

Sep 15th, 2015

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

Sep 15th, 2015

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

Sep 15th, 2015

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

Sep 15th, 2015

(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

Sep 15th, 2015

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

Museum Lecture Series 48: Six months with a critical care air transport team RN in Afghanistan

Sep 14th, 2015

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

Sep 14th, 2015

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

Sep 14th, 2015

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.”

Museum Lecture Series 45: The Battle of Britain: Three perspectives

Sep 14th, 2015

Author and aviation artist Paul Jacobs examines the Battle of Britain from three perspectives -- historical, aviation technology development and air tactics evolution.

Museum Lecture Series 44: B-29s and the Korean War

Sep 14th, 2015

Author and retired Lt. Col. George A. Larson discusses information from his latest book, “The Superfortress Final Glory: The Korean Air War, The Cold War's First Aerial Combat.”

Museum Lecture Series 43: The Early Wild Weasel Days: The Air Force's first anti-SAM efforts

Sep 14th, 2015

Former Wild Weasel Electronic Warfare Officer (Ret.) Col. Mike Gilroy discusses the challenges and opportunities facing Weasel and Strike crews at Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base in the mid-1960s.

Museum Lecture Series 42: The jet race and the Second World War

Sep 14th, 2015

Air University professor Dr. S. Mike Pavelec discusses the three competing programs -- German, British and American -- to develop jet aircraft technology during World War II.

Museum Lecture Series 41: Alone, Unarmed and Unafraid: Unarmed reconnaissance during the Vietnam Conflict

Sep 14th, 2015

Former Air Force pilot and FBI agent Taylor Eubank illustrates the Vietnam reconnaissance experience from high above in the midst of surface-to-air missile (SAM) barrages and anti-aircraft flak traps and through perilous nighttime photo mission