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 information about recently declassified elements of the program.

Museum Lecture Series 64: Manned Orbiting Laboratory Panel

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 65: Evolution of the F-22 Raptor

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 56: Contributions USAF Special Operations Forces Have Made to the Development of Air and Space Power, 1942 to 2012

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 57: America's SECRET MiG Squadron

Honor

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 58: Return and renewal with honor: Messages for all of us

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 59: The US Air Force's mission to help create Afghan air power

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 60: The Hexagon KH-9 Reconnaissance Satellite

Dr. Squire L. Brown discusses the museum’s Research &amp; Development Gallery, which exhibits a unique collection of aircraft that challenged the imagination and pushed the boundaries of flight.

Museum Lecture Series 62: Pushing the Envelope: Vision and Genius in the R&D Gallery

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 61: Titan II - The Few but the Powerful

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 63: B-29 Bockscar

The Lecture Series features an exciting array of speakers who impart a diversity of perspectives on USAF heritage. Lecturers include active duty or retired military members, specialists in research, development and technology, and historians and authors.

Museum Lecture Series

German immigrant and retired Air Force colonel Wolfgang Samuel uses official Air Force records and survivors' interviews to tell the story of the disarmament of the once mighty German Luftwaffe and to discuss Operation Lusty.

Museum Lecture Series 03: American Raiders: The Race to Capture the Luftwaffe's Secrets

Chief Master Sgt. Ramon Colon-Lopez, who in 2007 was one of six airmen to be awarded the first Air Force Combat Action Medal, discuss the Global War on Terror from the perspective of a special tactics pararescueman.

Museum Lecture Series 33: Lessons learned on the global war on terror, from the perspective of a special tactics pararescueman

Col. (Ret.) Graham Pritchard discusses the evolution of the C-130, missions now flown by the 109th Airlift Wing, and the Wing's challenging and successful recovery of Dr. Jerri Neilsen from the South Pole due to her illness.

Museum Lecture Series 08: History of the LC-130 in Polar Operations

Retired Col. Bob Krone discusses the F-105 Thunderchief, its pilots and missions and the 2007 meaning of the war in Southeast Asia.

Museum Lecture Series 13: Vietnam's F-105 Rolling Thunder: Its 2007 meaning

Best-selling author Dr. Donald L. Miller discusses his award-winning book, “Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany.”

Museum Lecture Series 21: Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

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

Dr. Conrad C. Crane, Director of the U.S. Army Military History Institute, discusses how the Korean War was the first armed engagement for the newly formed U.S. Air Force, but far from the type of conflict it expected or wanted to fight.

Museum Lecture Series 39: A Rather Bizarre War: The Air Force learns and adapts in Korea

Sean "Skipper" Moulton delves into unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) from a warfighter's perspective.

Museum Lecture Series 22: Challenges of the Next Generation Unmanned Aircraft System

World record setting pilot (Ret.) Lt. Col. Dick Rutan discusses his Air Force service, specifically his time as a forward air controller during the Southeast Asia War.

Museum Lecture Series 38: Recalling the MISTY years

World War II ace retired Col. Steve Pisanos discusses his 30-year Air Force career, including his six-month evasion of the Germans after his P-51B crash-landed during a 1944 mission in France.

Museum Lecture Series 14: The Flying Greek

British author Chris Pocock discusses the 'Black Bats' and CIA spy flights over China from Taiwan from 1951-1969.

Museum Lecture Series 34: The Black Bats: CIA spy flights over China from Taiwan, 1951-1969

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 missions.

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

Two men who served with the famed Tuskegee Airmen discuss the Air Force between 1941 and 1949.

Museum Lecture Series 04: Integration of the Air Force: The Early Years

Retired Col. Darrel Whitcomb relates his and others' experiences from combat search and rescue (CSAR) missions in Southeast Asia and examines the organization that was established to provide CSAR services in the Iraq-Kuwait theater of operations during Desert Storm.

Museum Lecture Series 12: Combat search and rescue in Desert Storm

Internationally-recognized aerospace historian Dr. Richard P. Hallion discusses America’s first jet-age air war.

Museum Lecture Series 37: Airpower in the Korean War: America's first jet-age air war

Col. (Ret.) Darrel Whitcomb, a former cargo pilot and forward air controller/Raven, discusses how the Vietnam War raged across much of Southeast Asia and also involved fighting in Cambodia and Laos.

Museum Lecture Series 07: Call Sign Raven: Fighting the Air War in Laos

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 going in the future.

Museum Lecture Series 55: 20 Years as an Air Force photojournalist

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