Dr. Jennifer Levasseur received her BA in history from the
University of Michigan in 1999, an MA in American Studies from The
George Washington University in 2002, and a PhD in history at
George Mason University in 2014. Her forthcoming book, Through
Astronaut Eyes: Photography from Early Human
Spaceflight (Purdue University Press, July 2020), looks at the
cultural significance of astronaut photography. She currently
serves as the responsible curator for the National Air and Space
Museum's astronaut cameras and chronographs, as well as the Space
Shuttle and International Space Station programs.
Prior to her work at the National Air and
Space Museum, she worked as a historic interpreter at George
Washington's Mount Vernon. She started her Smithsonian career with
an internship in the National Portrait Gallery's Department of
Photography. There, she cataloged photographs acquired through
donation and developed strategies for recording portrait
information in the museum's electronic database.
Since 2002, Jennifer has also worked at
the Air and Space Museum on artifact loans, serves as the Program
Committee chair for the biennial Mutual Concerns of Air and
Space Museums conference, and as a department representative
on digital projects. She curated the 2015 spacewalk anniversary
exhibit Outside the Spacecraft: 50 Years of Extra-Vehicular
Activity and currently serves as exhibition curator for the Moving
Beyond Earth exhibition.
Vanessa Port is an illustrator living in Bend, Oregon, with
her two cats and dog. She has a BFA from Kent State University in
Visual Communication Design. When she isn’t illustrating, she loves
to foster animals and play board games.
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