[b]Erik M. Conway[/b] (born 1965) is the historian at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. 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 [i]High-Speed Dreams[/i] (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. [i]Realizing the Dream of Flight [/i](2006) consists of eleven essays on individuals prepared in honor of the one hundredth anniversary of the Wright brothers' first powered flight. Conway also wrote [i]Blind Landings [/i](2007) and he is a co-author of a secondary-level education text entitled [i]Science and Exploration[/i] (2007). [i]Atmospheric Science at NASA[/i] was published in 2008. His 2010 book [i]Merchants of Doubt[/i] was co-authored with Naomi Oreskes, as was his article in the Winter 2013 issue of Daedalus called [i]The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future.[/i]