Dr. Teasel Muir-Harmony

Dr. Teasel Muir-Harmony is a historian of spaceflight and the curator of the Apollo Collection at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Her research focuses on the political history of exploring the Moon, from debates about lunar governance to the use of spaceflight as soft power, the topic of her award-winning book, Operation Moonglow: A Political History of Project Apollo (Basic Books, 2020). She has also written on the material culture of spaceflight in Apollo to the Moon: A History in 50 Objects (National Geographic, 2018) and other publications. In addition, Muir-Harmony is a historical advisor to the television series Apollo’s Moon Shot, and her work has been featured by CBS, NPR, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and numerous other media outlets.

 

Before coming to the Smithsonian, she earned a Ph.D. in the history of science and technology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and held positions at the American Institute of Physics and the Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum. Her research has been supported by the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation, the Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, the MIT Presidential Fellowship, the Smithsonian Institution Graduate Research Fellowship, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the National Science Foundation.

 

Muir-Harmony co-organizes the Space Policy & History Forum, teaches in Georgetown University’s Science, Technology and International Affairs Program, and serves on the Executive Council of the Society for the History of Technology and the History Committee of the American Astronautical Society.


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