MIT has a subdepartment called Science, Technology, and Society.

In particular, there is David Mindell who I don't know personally, but has joint appointments in the History of Technology area and the Aeronautics and Astronautics department.

From his webpage:

He teaches "Engineering Apollo: The Moon Project as a Complex System," which integrates technical, political, and operational perspectives on the history of space exploration.

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You can download the course materials here

OP, try to reach out to Story musgrave. Tldr my father (a professional photographer and NASA but) has a large collection of space artifacts including many cameras flown in space. He's located and documented the serial numbers and found photos taken by and with the cameras (for instance hr has a picture of John Glenn with one of the cameras in space).

Anyways- story is an astronaut we've met and talked to several times. He's big on photography and has attended photo meet ups and done talks on the subject. God speed.

The tricky thing about space history is that a lot of the best-known practitioners are not in universities but are at places like the Smithsonian Institution (a lot of them are curators at Air and Space, like Roger Launius, David DeVorkin, Alan Needell). So they aren't available to take classes from, though they are useful when you enter into the research stage.

I am friends with a few space historians who recently got Ph.D.s. What they did was to enroll in programs that did history of science and/or technology, or STS programs (either Science, Technology & Society or Science and Technology Studies — internal academic politics, don't ask) where advisors were willing to work with them on this subject. There are in fact many such programs in the USA with people who work on space topics. These include the STS program at MIT, the History of Technology program at Georgia Tech, the history of science program at UC Santa Barbara, and plenty of others.

Note that pursuing someone who specifically does space history may or may not be a good overall graduate study plan. Sometimes it is considered best to just go to the best program in the subject (and in this case, it is history of science/technology) and then find an external advisor who is willing to be on your dissertation committee (which could be anyone who is willing to do it). There are ups and downs to this approach.

Other possibilities are to just pursue a degree in a US History department (though this is a crowded field), or even in Environmental History. The home department of your degree will probably shape some of the expectations for what kinds of things you focus on. E.g. American historians often focus on cultural, political, and social history these days; historians of science focus on knowledge generation and circulation; historians of technology focus on systems building and technological politics; environmental historians focus on transformations of understandings about nature; STS people do kind of "all of the above" often with an eye towards the present; etc. All of these are rough caricatures but are meant to give you some idea of the different ways these sub-disciplines will process any given topic. You have only some freedom as a graduate student to buck the prevailing interests in your sub-discipline. If you are interested in finding out more about each of these sub-disciplines, please feel free to ask and I'm sure people on here can refer you to one or two "canonical" works from each of them that give a flavor for what kinds of questions they like to ask of the past.

Hope that helps! As I said I do not do space history in particular. However I did do nuclear history, which is on the face of it as equally focused a topic that can also be handled in many different ways. I got my Ph.D. from a history of science department, but one with a lot of STS overtones (and one of my advisors was explicitly someone who identified with STS as opposed to history of science).

Is Walter McDougall still at Penn? He won a Pulitzer for The Heavens and the Earth: a Political History of the Space Age.

Try these guys;

Cal Tech (California Institute of Technology)

Jet Propulsion Labatory

Cal Poly Pomona

Well, you should go to near NASA or a NASA museum to be able to review primary documents in the event you need to. Being around someone knowledgeable may help for references, however learning on your own and expanding the knowledge bank, rather than drawing upon it, I think, would progress things.

Look at universities near NASA :)