Books
Selected Articles
“Pathfinder to Profit: Lessons from the Space Shuttle Era,” in The Rise of the Commercial Space Industry: Early Space Age to the Present, Brian C. Odom, ed. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).
“Learning on Their Bellies,” Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (2024) 54 (1): 109–111.
“Bored to Death: Human Spaceflight in 2050,” Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly 31, no. 1 (2024): 37–41.
“‘We Ran as If to Meet the Moon’: The Inspired Lunacy of Apollo 11,” in After Apollo: Cultural Legacies of the Race to the Moon, J. B. Bennington and Rodney F. Hill, eds. (Gainsville: University Press of Florida, 2023) (Honorable Mention, Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection in Popular and American Culture).
“Redemptive Space: Duty, Death, and the Astronaut-Soldier, 1949–1969,” in “We Are All Astronauts”: The Image of the Space Traveler in Arts and Media, Henry Keazor, ed. (Berlin: Noefelis, 2019).
“Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Re-purposing NASA’s Spacecraft,” in NASA Spaceflight: A History of Innovation, Roger Launius and Howard E. McCurdy, eds. (Washington, D.C.: NASA, 2016; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).
“‘Capsules Are Swallowed’: The Mythology of the Pilot in American Spaceflight,” in Spacefarers: Images of Astronauts and Cosmonauts in the Heroic Era of Spaceflight, by Michael J. Neufeld and Stephen J. Garber, eds. (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2013).
“Using the Shuttle: Operations on Orbit,” in Space Shuttle Legacy: How We Did It and What We Learned, by John Krige and Roger Launius, eds. (Reston: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2013).
“Space Apes Want our Women! Primate Lust in American Science FictionFilm,” in The Sex Is Out of This World:Essays on the Carnal Side of Science Fiction, by Michael G. Cornelius and Sherry Ginn, eds. (New York: McFarland, 2012).
“Space Madness: The Dreaded Disease that Never Was,” Endeavour 36 (2012): 32–40.
“The Semiotics of Spaceflight on the Satellite of Love,” in In the Peanut Gallery with Mystery Science Theater 3000: Essays on Film, Fandom, Technology and the Culture of Riffing, by Rob Weiner and Shelley Barba, eds. (New York: McFarland, 2011).
“Return of the Lost Spaceman: America’s Astronauts in Popular Culture, 1959–2006,” The Journal of Popular Culture 44 (2011): 73–92.
“High Fashion: TheWomen’s Undergarment Industry and the Foundations of American Spaceflight,” Fashion Theory 13 (2009): 345–70 (trans.Теория моды [Russian] 38 [Winter 2015–2016]).
“Checklist: TheSecret Life of Apollo’s ‘Fourth Crewmember,’” in Space Travel and Culture: From Apollo to Space Tourism, by MartinParker and David Bell, eds., Sociological Review (Monograph) 57 (2009): 6–24.
