Erik M. Conway

Erik Meade Conway^[1] (born 1965) is the historian at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.^[2] He is the author of several books. He previously completed a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1998, with a dissertation on the development of aircraft landing aids.

In High-Speed Dreams (2005), Conway argues that U.S. government sponsorship of supersonic commercial transportation systems resulted from Cold War concerns about a loss of technological prowess in the modern world.^[3][4] Realizing the Dream of Flight (2006) consists of eleven essays on individuals prepared in honor of the one hundredth anniversary of the Wright brothers' first powered flight.^[5] Conway also wrote Blind Landings (2007) and he is a co-author of a secondary-level education text entitled Science and Exploration (2007). Atmospheric Science at NASA was published in 2008.^[6]

His 2010 book Merchants of Doubt was co-authored with Naomi Oreskes,^[7] as was his article in the Winter 2013 issue of Daedalus called The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future.^[8]

Bibliography

• High-Speed Dreams (2005)
• Realizing the Dream of Flight (2006)
• Exploration and Science: Social Impact and Interaction (Science and Society), Co-authors: by Michael Sean Reidy, Gary Kroll (2006) ISBN 1576079856
• Blind Landings (2007)^[9]
• Science and Exploration (2007)
• Atmospheric Science at NASA (2008) ISBN 1421401630^[10]
• Merchants of Doubt (co-author: Naomi Oreskes; 2010) ASIN B003RRXXO8
• The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future (Daedalus, 2013) ISBN 0231537956^[11]
• The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market (co-authors: Naomi Oreskes; Bloomsbury, 2023) ISBN 1635573580^[12]
• Oreskes, Naomi & Erik M. Conway (September 2020). "The information manipulators : by moving matter and energy, innovators have democratized information". Scientific American. 323 (3): 40–46.^[13]