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SUMMARY:Holiday Happy Hour 2022
DESCRIPTION:Holiday Happy Hour\nWe’ll be having a fun after-work get-together to help celebrate the holidays on Tuesday\, December 13th\, in Sunnyvale. AIAA-SF will provide a round of drinks and appetizers. Come and revel with us as we get ready to see off 2022 and welcome in the new year! \nPlease RSVP so we can get an accurate headcount: \nhttps://aiaa-sf.org/registration/ \nShare this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://aiaa-sf.org/event/holiday-happy-hour-2022/
LOCATION:Off The Rails Brewing\, 111 S. Murphy Ave\, Sunnyvale\, CA\, 94086\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221207T183000
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SUMMARY:Tech Talk: Tom Marotta
DESCRIPTION:Tech Talk: Tom Marotta\nPlease join us for a virtual meeting on Wednesday\, December 7th\, at 6:30pm to discuss how to build a flourishing human civilization in space. Our guest\, Tom Marotta\, will talk about the next steps: wider spaceport access and increased transportation to orbit. \n\nTom Marotta is the Founder and CEO of The Spaceport Company. Prior to founding The Spaceport Company he was the Principal Launch Licensing Manager at Astra Space where he obtained the first FAA Part 450 launch license and helped establish Astra’s second spaceport\, at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station\, in 8 months\, faster than it’s ever been done before. From 2016 to 2021 he worked at the FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation managing the Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee and writing portions of the Part 450 licensing regulation. From 2010 to 2016 he was U.S. Foreign Service Officer having served overseas in West Africa\, Europe\, and Iraq. He was an original co-founder of the Beyond Earth Institute and co-authored “The High Frontier: An Easier Way“. \nBring all of the questions you may have about such a venture; the more challenging\, the better! \n\n  \nThis event will be held virtually. Registration is required:\nhttps://aiaa-sf.org/registration/ \nShare this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://aiaa-sf.org/event/tech-talk-tom-marotta/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221105T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221105T140000
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SUMMARY:AIAA Banquet 2022
DESCRIPTION:Registration ends Friday 11/4 — no onsite registration. Register here:\nhttps://aiaa-sf.org/registration/ \nPlanetary Defense from Asteroids and Comets\nThis year’s annual banquet will be a luncheon event\, with check-in starting at 12:00 pm on Saturday\, November 5th\, 2022. It will take place at the Chabot Space and Science Center\, located at 10000 Skyline Blvd. in Oakland. Aside from lunch and our special guest speaker\, the ticket also provides access to Chabot’s regular exhibits and planetarium shows through the end of the day.\nNear-Earth objects (NEOs) are asteroids and comets that pose local\, regional\, or continental impact threat. The realization that asteroid impacts are a modern-day possibility followed analyses proving that many of the craters on Earth were caused by cosmic impacts rather than by gradual geological process or volcanic eruptions. In the 1980s researchers discovered that the demise of the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago coincided with a major asteroid impact\, and in 1994 observers recognized similar-sized impacts when fragments of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 smashed into Jupiter. If such an object were to hit Earth today\, it could cause widespread devastation and profoundly affect life on Earth. Although major cosmic collisions with Earth are infrequent\, their consequences could be severe. Hence\, advanced planning is critical to mitigating future asteroid threats. And the best time to start preparing is now—well before any actual threat is detected. \nGiven this reality: What are the current risks? How would we deflect or destroy an asteroid or comet on a collision course with Earth? What are the technical and political risks? What are the obligations and strategic interests that would drive a decision to act? This talk describes results from recent international planetary defense conferences and tabletop exercises addressing these global questions through scientific studies and hypothetical scenarios. The talk also highlights evolving public and educational outreach\, new simulation tools\, recent space missions\, and actions taken by the United Nations to support Planetary Defense. \n  \nDr. Nahum Melamed is a project leader in the Embedded Control Systems Department in the Guidance and Control Subdivision at The Aerospace Corporation\, a position he has held since 2003. As a technical lead in Launch Vehicle Software\, Melamed coordinates and guides a team of interdepartmental technical experts\, and supports validation and mission readiness certification of the flight software and mission parameters for NASA’s Artemis missions. He serves as the management\, program office\, customer\, and contractor point of contact in the flight software area. In his work\, Melamed monitors flight operations on day of launch\, performs post-flight analyses\, and participates in discussions concerning launch performance. \n  \nSchedule:\n12:00pm – check in\n12:30pm – presentation starts \nNote: The event will be indoors. \nPrices go up after 11/2 and the deadline to register is 11/4\, so don’t wait! \nRegister here: \nhttps://aiaa-sf.org/registration/ \nShare this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://aiaa-sf.org/event/aiaa-banquet-2022/
LOCATION:Chabot Space & Science Center\, 10000 Skyline Blvd\, Oakland\, 94619\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220324T183000
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SUMMARY:Tech Talk: Steve Lee
DESCRIPTION:Tech Talk: Steve Lee\nHow vulnerable is aerospace to cybercrime? What should we be doing about it? \nIn 2016\, the World Economic Forum reported that cybercrime costs were $3 trillion worldwide\, and expected to reach $10.5 trillion annually by 2025. Attacks on infrastructure such as pipelines are already felt by the aerospace industry. Moreover\, manufacturers and airlines are targets of ransomware. In 2019\, AIAA launched an effort to address cybersecurity concerns. It now has an Aerospace Cybersecurity Working Group that is producing a tutorial on the subject for ASCEND. AIAA partners with other stakeholders in efforts like the DEFCON Aerospace Village and Hack-a-Satellite challenge to understand possible vulnerabilities in space infrastructure. \nSteve Lee\, AIAA’s Cybersecurity Program Manager\, will discuss various aspects of cybersecurity as it relates to aerospace\, including external and internal pressures; policy responses and impacts; cybersecurity programming at AIAA; and program outreach. Steve leads adjacent content and product development activities at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics\, including cybersecurity\, autonomy\, and space traffic management. He is currently applying his combination of analytic\, technology consulting\, and enterprise strategy experience—in industry and in the Federal policy arena—to build boost AIAA’s adjacent content development program. \nSteve previously provided senior-level expertise on physical and cyber infrastructure protection and intelligence program policy for client engagements at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)\, including analysis of threats to dams\, energy\, rail\, transit\, and other critical infrastructure. He has over 25 years of program management\, critical infrastructure protection\, and national security experience\, including over 16 years supporting DHS and the Intelligence Community (IC)\, with analysis of cyber\, terrorism\, and weapons of mass destruction issues\, and nearly five years in the U.S. Army. He has also served in leadership and sales roles in aviation and media organizations. \nThis event will be held virtually. Registration is required:\nhttps://aiaa-sf.org/registration/ \nShare this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://aiaa-sf.org/event/tech-talk-steve-lee/
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Women in Aerospace Happy Hour
DESCRIPTION:Bay Area Women in Space and Aerospace Happy Hour\nAIAA-SF and the Bay Area Women in Space and Aerospace will be hosting a hybrid happy hour together. This event will discuss McKinsey’s 2019 Women in the Workplace Report (link) on the “Broken Rung” in the corporate ladder: the first obstacle women face on their way to Senior Leadership is the first step to Manager. Our panelists have navigated their way to leadership positions in Aerospace and will share how they did it\, advice for others in the industry\, and advice for companies. We are excited to have:\n• Dawn Harms\, Chief Revenue Officer at Momentus\n• Diana Albarran Chicas\, Mission Architect & Director of Internal Research & Development at Maxar Technologies \n  \nThis event will be a hybrid event with tickets available to 30 guests in-person and a live stream. \nRough Agenda: \n\n6:00-6:30pm: Doors Open\n6:30-7:30pm: Announcements & Panel\n7:30-8:00pm: Wrap-Up\n\nThis event was sponsored by a grant from the AIAA Diversity Working Group. For more information about the group an their activities\, please check out their website. \n  \nThe video of this event is available on our youtube channel here: \n\n  \nShare this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://aiaa-sf.org/event/women-in-aerospace-happy-hour/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220217T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220217T203000
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SUMMARY:Tech Talk: Scott Truax
DESCRIPTION:Tech Talk: Scott Truax\nScott Truax will give a talk covering the work of his father\, Robert Truax\, on the Evel Knievel’s X-2 Skycycle\, and Scott’s subsequent work on The Evel Spirit\, culminating in the successful jump across the Snake River Canyon. \n\nScott has been surrounded by science and technology his whole life. His father being Robert Truax\, one of America’s pioneers in rocketry\, you might even say it’s in his DNA. Born in 1967\, one of his first memories was of men walking on the moon. Not long after that\, he had a front row seat as his Dad built the X-2 Skycycle for Daredevil Evel Knievel In the family’s garage. This rocket and its subsequent failure in clearing the canyon would have serious implications later in his life. In his teen years he also developed a keen interest in cars buying his first hotrod at 15. Over the years he would come to build and own many realizing that he really had a knack and a passion for fabrication. In his 20s He worked for his father’s company Truax Engineering on the SEALAR project\, an acronym for SEA Launched And Recovered rockets\, for the USN where he put his fabrication skills to work building rockets and support equipment. After completing that contract he continued in aerospace manufacturing running the shop at the Peregrine Falcon Corporation who specialized in working with the strategic material\, beryllium. With the aerospace market taking a dip in the early 2000s and the residential home market on fire he decided to start his own construction company in the Silicon Valley Artisan Homescapes\, building and remodeling some of the area’s finest homes. \n  \n \nIn 2008\, with the crash of the real estate market\, he set his sights on his most ambitious project to date: successfully re-creating Evel Knievel’s ill fated canyon jump and proving to the world that his Dad’s rocket would’ve worked had the parachute not deployed too soon. In 2016\, that dream was realized as his rocket\, The Evel Spirit\, carried Hollywood Stuntman Eddie Braun across the Snake River Canyon. Their exploits became the subject for the award winning movie “Stuntman” currently available on Disney Plus. His latest noteworthy achievements have been in the field of literature where he gathered his father’s memoirs and published the book “American Rocketman” and then wrote a book on his own life\, focusing mainly on the Evel Spirit project called “Return to Snake River” both available on Amazon. \nThe event video is available on our youtube channel here: \n\nShare this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://aiaa-sf.org/event/tech-talk-scott-truax/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211216T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211216T200000
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SUMMARY:Holiday Happy Hour 2021
DESCRIPTION:Holiday Happy Hour\nThe AIAA-SF section will be hosting a special happy hour this month to round out the year. Come and join us at Agave Mexican Bistro in downtown Mountain View. \nSome food and drinks will be provided. Vaccination required and outdoor seating is available. \n  \nPlease RSVP so we can get an accurate headcount: \nhttps://aiaa-sf.org/registration/ \nShare this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://aiaa-sf.org/event/holiday-happy-hour-2021/
LOCATION:Agave Mexcian Bistro\, 194 Castro St\, Mountain View\, CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210918T180000
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SUMMARY:Annual Section Awards Celebration 2021
DESCRIPTION:Annual Section Awards Celebration (a.k.a. Virtual Annual Banquet)\n  \nAIAA SF Section will felicitate the 2021 section award winners during our annual banquet (in webinar form). These awards are given in six categories on an annual basis. The award certificates will be sent to all the winners after the event on September 18th. \nOur Guest Speaker\, John Andrews\, will be speaking on the NASA Lucy spacecraft and its mission to explore the small population of asteroids that orbit with Jupiter\, known as the Trojan asteroids. The Trojan asteroids have been trapped in stable orbits around the Jovian Lagrange points 4 and 5\, providing a unique opportunity to further study the building blocks of our Solar System and its formation. \n \nJohn Andrews is the Payload Deputy Project Manager\, overseeing payload operations for the Lucy Mission. Payloads for Lucy include L’Ralph (NASA Goddard)\, L’TES (ASU)\, and L’LORRI (JHU) studying infrared and visible spectrum observations of Trojan asteroids. \nSynopsis: Lucy is a planned NASA space probe that will complete a 12-year journey to seven different asteroids\, visiting a main belt asteroid as well as six Jupiter trojans\, asteroids which share Jupiter’s orbit around the Sun\, orbiting either ahead of or behind the planet. \n \nlucy.swri.edu/mission/Overview.html \nAttendance is free. Register here: \nhttps://aiaa-sf.org/registration/ \nShare this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://aiaa-sf.org/event/annual-section-awards-celebration-2021/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210401T183000
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SUMMARY:The Space Show: Behind the Scenes
DESCRIPTION:The Space Show: Behind the Scenes\nDr. David Livingston is the founder and host of The Space Show®\, a live broadcast internet radio space educational talk show program. In the 20 years and almost 4\,000 live radio interviews\, The Space Show is the nation’s only live talk radio show about everything space. It covers space commerce\, tourism\, missions\, science\, economics\, and development\, to enable our growing space-faring economy and society.\nJoin us for a special event with Dr. Livingston and two of his longtime supporters\, content providers\, and advisors\, Kim Holder and John Jossy. Kim and John will turn the tables on Dr. Livingston\, with the longtime host becoming the interviewee. Listen as they delve into the history of The Space Show\, finding out interesting tidbits about the many interviews and exploring Dr. Livingston’s philosophy and motivations. There will be some time for the audience to ask their burning questions at the end of the program. \n  \n \nIn addition to being the founder and host of The Space Show®\, Dr. David Livingston is also the Executive Director of the One Giant Leap Foundation\, Inc. (OGLF)\, the 501(C)3 that controls The Space Show and promote space education. He was an Adjunct Professor of Space Studies in the Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences at the University of North Dakota where he taught graduate classes on commercial space for more than a decade.  Livingston has a BA in Political Science\, an MBA specializing in International Business Management & Economics\, and a Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA).  His 2001 dissertation was titled Outer Space Commerce:  Its History and Prospects.  Dr. Livingston did his graduate and post graduate work at Golden Gate University in San Francisco\, CA. \nLivingston is a frequent speaker at space conferences and has published more than 50 papers including chapters in books and peer reviewed works.  For example\, he authored the Space Tourism chapter in the Space Encyclopedia and co-authored three business and financial chapters in the New SMAD Textbook\, Space Mission Engineering: The New SMAD.  David has lectured at several universities and has been a guest on many national and international radio programs in the U.S. and throughout Europe.  In addition\, he co-hosts a weekly radio segment\, Hotel Mars\, on the John Batchelor Show\, a nationally syndicated radio program. Lastly\, Dr. Livingston is frequently interviewed by authors writing books on space development\, commerce\, and policy.  When not teaching\, broadcasting\, writing\, or just playing\, Livingston consults with those working to establish a commercial space ventures and policy\, plus he works with students and their space focused research projects.  He also makes time for his family and Pepper\, his Siberian Husky\, who is the unofficial Space Show mascot and featured on The Space Show website. Livingston is in the early stages of writing the first twenty year history of The Space Show. \n  \n \nKim Holder studied sculpture at the Ontario College of Art and Design in the late 80s. After that she led the life of a ne’er-do-well for a couple of decades due to a chronic fatigue problem. It got so bad she moved to Mexico in a desperate attempt to get her life under control\, figuring she could live cheaply and try to return to her art work. There she met her husband Aldo. She hardly spoke any Spanish\, nor he much English\, but somehow it worked. Under his protection\, she finally managed to identify a diet and lifestyle that allowed her to have a normal energy level\, but by then she was in her mid 40s. \nSo she searched for a project\, since Aldo’s businesses looked after things. Her life long interest in space and futurism led her to establish Moonwards\, a project to build a lunar town as an online game world that evolves as its community adds to it. She also continues the meditation practice she learned as a resident of the Toronto Zen Centre and later the Rochester Zen Center. She is a devout agnostic. \n  \n \nJohn Jossy became interested in space development back in the early 1970s when as a teenager he watched Star Trek\, saw 2001: A Space Odyssey and voraciously read Analog Science Fiction and Fact.  In high school\, as an amateur astronomer he built two telescopes by hand and wrote a report on space solar power satellites in his senior physics class.  He dreamed of going to the stars\, but that dream faded after he learned about the limitations imposed by the laws of physics.  Nevertheless\, he became hooked on space advocacy after reading the High Frontier and became a Senior Associate of the Space Studies Institute since its early days\, as well as a member of the National Space Society. He always believed that Gerard K. O’Neill’s vision of space settlement would be realized and hoped it would be within our lifetime. \nJohn has a Bachelors Degree in Physical Science with a minor in Astronomy from UC Berkeley.  In 1980 he was hired as a Product Assurance Engineer at Varian Associates (now Communications and Power Industries) where he worked on a Department of Energy program to develop a 200 kilowatt continuous wave microwave tube called a gyrotron used in fusion energy research.  In 1992\, after being laid off from Varian at the end of the Reagan defense buildup\, he got started in the Medical Device Industry where he held positions as a Sr. Quality Engineer\, Quality Manager and Director of QA and Regulatory Affairs at both small start-ups and larger established medical device companies for 28 years. \nFrom 1990 to 1993 John published a bi-monthly newsletter called Space Colonization Progress.  From 1993 to 1995 he was Technical Editor for the Spacefaring Gazette\, the newsletter of the Golden Gate Chapter of the National Space Society. More recently\, in 2016 he participated in March Storm\, an annual project of the Alliance for Space Development where private citizens travel to Washington DC and meet with members of Congress advocating for support of space development initiatives.  John is a lifetime member of Icarus Interstellar.  In 2019 he joined the Advisory Board of the One Giant Leap Foundation which controls and operates The Space Show created and hosted by Dr. David Livingston. Having recently retired from the medical device industry he now devotes more of his time to space advocacy and continuing efforts to popularize research and technology that will enable human settlement of the solar system and beyond. He blogs on space settlement at https://spacesettlementprogress.com/ \n  \nThe recording of this event is now on our Youtube channel:\nhttps://youtu.be/BTA8pVcqUhc \n  \nShare this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://aiaa-sf.org/event/the-space-show/
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SUMMARY:AIAA Banquet 2020
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Annual Banquet: The Future of Supersonic Transportation\nAnnual Honors & Awards Presentation\, featuring The Future of Supersonic Travel\nJoin us as we gather to celebrate and honor the recipients of our 2020 Section-wide awards\, as well as the winners of the AIAA middle school essay contest. Our guest speaker will be Alex Egeler\, an Executive Vice President at Aerion\, talking about his vision for the future of supersonic travel. \nAerion is committed to changing the face of global mobility by dramatically increasing the speed of transportation in an environmentally sustainable way. The first step towards this goal is the AS2\, a carbon-neutral Mach 1.4 supersonic business jet that is slated for entry into service in 2027. To support this vision\, Aerion Technologies is an innovation center located in Palo Alto\, CA that develops tools and infrastructure to rapidly respond to the needs of the company and provide automation to engineering tasks and beyond. This presentation will discuss the capabilities that Aerion Technologies provides and how that enables Aerion to design the revolutionary concepts required to alter the way we think about travel. \nAlex heads Aerion Technologies\, Aerion’s software development division in Palo Alto\, California. He has been at Aerion for more than five years\, working on everything from software development for optimization\, to supersonic inlet design\, to strategic planning and direction. Prior to Aerion\, Alex worked as a systems engineer innovating new performance analysis capabilities at Northrop Grumman in their Marine Systems division. He has a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Johns Hopkins University\, and an M.S. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from Stanford. \n  \nSchedule:\n6:30: Welcome and Introductions \n6:35: Section and Student Essay Awards \n6:45: Keynote Speaker \n8:00: Q&A \n8:30: End \n  \nAttendance is free. Register here: \nhttps://aiaa-sf.org/registration/ \nShare this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://aiaa-sf.org/event/aiaa-banquet-2020/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200910T183000
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SUMMARY:AIAA Spacecateers
DESCRIPTION:AIAA Spacecateers\nJoin us for a remarkable discussion about the intersection of the science fiction and science facts behind spacecraft\, past\, present and future. Two noted space artists and a space historian join forces to explore how the idea of plying the interplanetary and interstellar spaceways came to be\, who designed the spacecraft we all know and love—many of which have become major cultural icons—and what the future holds for the exploration of deep space. \nThis incredible adventure of fact-meets-fiction is hosted by the AIAA SF Section\, and is illustrated with lavish visual media to bring you some of your favorites from science fiction past and a peek at some likely future designs. It’s sure to be the best hour of entertainment you’ll find on this side of the Mos Eisley Cantina! \nRod Pyle is a space author\, journalist and historian. He has authored eleven books on space history\, exploration and development for major publishers that have been published in seven languagaes. His frequent articles have appeared in Space.com\, LiveScience\, Futurity\, Huffington Post and WIRED. He has written extensively for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech\, and authored the Apollo Executive Leadership Program for the Johnson Space Center with The Conference Board. His most recent book release is “Mars: Making Contact.” Rod is currently writing Space 2.0: The New Space Age” in association with the National Space Society\, and “Technology Highlights” for NASA/JPL. He appears frequently on national radio and television\, with regular slots on KFI/Los Angeles\, and WGN/Chicago. He was recently featured on PBS’s “Between the Lines” and C-SPAN’s “Book TV.” Rod holds an MA from Stanford University and a BFA from the Art Center College of Design\, and lives in Pasadena\, CA. \nAldo Spadoni is an MIT graduate with an aerospace engineering career spanning over 35 years. He has made significant technical contributions to numerous advanced aircraft\, missile\, and spacecraft programs for NASA\, DARPA\, and the U.S. Armed Services. He began his engineering career at Hughes Space & Communications Group as a spacecraft configuration design engineer working on the Galileo Jupiter spacecraft. Later\, he joined TRW Defense & Space Systems as a navigation systems engineering specialist working on ICBMs and spacecraft programs. Aldo joined Northrop in 1985\, supporting the advanced design team in the area of advanced avionics system integration and project management. He created and managed an award-winning creative simulation team at Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems. Aldo is a recipient of NASA’s 2004 Turning Goals Into Reality team award for Reusable Launch Vehicle Development. He is an accomplished self-taught artist and concept designer with four U.S. patents to his credit. He is President and Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the International Association of Astronomical Artists (IAAA). Aldo’s consulting company\, Aerospace Imagineering\, specializes in the conceptual design\, visualization and prototyping of advanced technology products and concepts. His visualizations have appeared in numerous magazines and television documentaries. He has worked closely with hard science fiction authors such as Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle to bring their technological visions to life. As an aerospace concept designer and technology consultant to the entertainment industry\, he supported the production of APOLLO 13\, SUPERNOVA\, STEALTH\, IRON MAN 1 & 2\, and other movie projects. He helped produce the 2009 National Geographic Channel documentary called HITLER’S STEALTH FIGHTER. Aldo’s personal goals are to promote STEAM education and create compelling visions of humanity’s spacefaring future. \nRick Sternbach has been a space and science fiction artist since the early 1970s\, often combining both interests in a project. His clients include NASA\, Sky & Telescope\, Data Products\, Random House\, Smithsonian\, Analog\, Astronomy\, The Planetary Society\, and Time-Life Books. He is a founding member and Fellow of the International Association of Astronomical Artists (IAAA)\, which was formed in 1981. He has written and illustrated articles on orbital transfer vehicles and interstellar flight for Science Digest. Beginning in the late 1970s Rick added film and television illustration and special effects to his repertoire\, with productions like Star Trek: The Motion Picture\, The Last Starfighter\, Future Flight\, and Cosmos\, for which he and other members of the astronomical art team received an Emmy award\, the first for visual effects. Rick also twice received the coveted Hugo award for best professional science fiction artist\, in 1977 and 1978. In 2006\, after fifteen years with the Star Trek franchise\, Rick produced physical terrains and globes of Mercury\, Venus\, Mars\, and Saturn’s moon Iapetus for the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles\, for their Gunther Depths of Space exhibit. Digital renderings of the Cosmos 1 solar sail were done for the Planetary Society\, along with composited images of a sixteen square foot scale model of their revised Lightsail 1. He has also built a scale model of a proposed asteroid retrieval spacecraft for the Keck Institute for Space Studies. Most recently\, Rick was included as a member of the special committee overseeing the restoration of the original U.S.S. Enterprise eleven foot filming miniature by the National Air & Space Museum in Washington\, D.C. \n\nThe event has passed\, but you can still watch the recording here:\nhttps://youtu.be/9a6glxs3Ilk \nShare this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://aiaa-sf.org/event/aiaa-spacecateers/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200227T183000
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SUMMARY:Dinner Meeting - ISS National Lab
DESCRIPTION:The International Space Station U.S. National Laboratory is Coming to Silicon Valley\nAIAA and the International Space Station (ISS) U.S. National Laboratory invite you to a unique event on February 27\, 2020 to discover how YOU can help improve life on Earth through research onboard the ISS. \nTogether with NASA\, the ISS National Lab is enabling space-based research and development in key areas such as industrialized biomedicine and advanced materials that will drive the economy in low Earth orbit and push the boundaries of innovation for the benefit of life on Earth. \nIn an engaging panel discussion\, learn how the ISS National Lab is fostering groundbreaking science and providing opportunities for commercial companies\, startups\, and academic institutions to conduct innovative space-based research in partnership with NASA and commercial service providers. Find out how to launch your experiment to the ISS! \nThis event is open to the public and will feature the following panelists: \n\nMiki Sode\, ISS National Lab (Moderator)\nRon Goedendorp\, NanoRacks\nDaniel Faber\, OrbitFab\nSven Eenmaa\, ISS National Lab\n\n\nSpeakers\nMiki Sode\, Ph.D\nMiki Sode\, Ph.D.\, is a Commercial Innovation Program Manager at the International Space Station (ISS) U.S. National Laboratory\, where she oversees activities and strategic programs in partnership with startups\, Fortune 500 companies\, and academic institutions. Combining her multidisciplinary background and passion for space-based research\, she advocates for utilizing the space environment to advance science and technology research and development for the benefit of life on Earth. Her portfolio spans a wide range of research areas\, including aerospace technology development\, remote sensing\, data analytics and AI\, bone research\, synthetic biology\, plant biology\, agriculture\, and sustainability-focused studies.\nSode received a BA in physics with an astrophysics minor emphasis from the University of California\, Berkeley; an MS in aerospace engineering from San Jose State University; and a Ph.D. in bioengineering (focused on medical imaging and osteoporosis) through a joint program from the University of California\, Berkeley and the University of California\, San Francisco. \nRon Goedendorp\n \nRonald Goedendorp is Vice President of Space Opportunities for Nanoracks\, a leading new space company developing platforms and opportunities for satellites\, earth observation (sensors)\, microgravity research\, communications\, in-space manufacturing and other applications. His work with academia\, government\, and private industry has advanced the new space ecosystem. Ron’s career includes banking\, insurance\, investment\, software\, image analysis\, aerospace\, sensor\, and medical device industries. \nRon received his degree from the University of California\, San Diego (UCSD)\, and is a co-founder of the UCSD Bay Area Alumni Scholarship Fund. He is currently based in San Francisco and can be found @gorongo. \nDaniel Faber\nDaniel Faber has over 20 years of space technology leadership\, building and launching a dozen satellites for asteroid searches\, environmental monitoring\, telecommunications and human habitation. As a serial entrepreneur\, his first company developed a unique mining instrumentation technology utilizing gamma ray spectroscopy\, following which he worked on nuclear fusion reactors and then Antarctic communications. Familiar with the economics of deep sea mining\, Mr. Faber became CEO of Deep Space Industries where he secured millions in financing from VC and governments and grew sales from zero to nearly $10 million. With DSI he successfully changed global perceptions and regulations around space resources and positioned the company to systematically create and commercialize technology for asteroid mining. Daniel has an engineeing background and MBA’s from both UCLA Anderson and National University of Singapore. He now leads Orbit Fab\, a two-year-old venture backed start-up in Silicon Valley that has already deployed its first two propellant tanker test-bed in Earth orbit for propellant transfer trials and recently became the first private company to resupply the International Space Station with water. \nSven Eenmaa \nSven Eenmaa is a Director of Investment and Economic Analysis at the ISS U.S. National Laboratory\, where he leads the organization’s engagement with investor community and is responsible for economic analysis of companies and flight projects to optimize the use of the ISS National Lab’s resources. Prior to joining the ISS National Lab\, Mr. Eenmaa served for over 16 years as an equity analyst and investment banker with leading Wall Street firms in New York and San Francisco\, advising investors and companies across emerging sectors of energy\, industrial\, telecommunications\, and technology industries\, and working on financing and strategic transactions that raised over $12 billion dollars of capital. Mr. Eenmaa received his MBA in finance and strategy from the Yale School of Management\, and graduated with BSc Summa Cum Laude from Indiana Wesleyan University. \n  \nMembers: $34\, \nNon-members: $44\, \nStudents: $24\, valid student ID required at the door \nDinner Buffet is included with admission.\nPrices will go up after February 20. \n  \nRegister here: \nhttps://aiaa-sf.org/registration/ \nShare this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://aiaa-sf.org/event/dinner-meeting-iss-national-lab/
LOCATION:Michaels at Shoreline\, 2960 N Shoreline Blvd\, Mountain View\, CA\, 94043\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190915T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190915T210000
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SUMMARY:AIAA Banquet 2019
DESCRIPTION:Annual Banquet at the USS Hornet:\n50th anniversary of Apollo 11\nA dinner meeting\, awards session\, exhibit\, and guided tour.\nA great occasion to visit this prime national historic landmark linked to Aerospace Engineering in the San Francisco Bay Area: the US Navy aircraft carrier USS Hornet picked up the famous crew of Apollo 11 after their return to earth and ‘splashdown’ in the Pacific Ocean. This is a great event to bring your family and friends\, and the future pilots and aerospace engineers of the next generation! \nDuring this event\, we will have a dinner in buffet style in the ship’s officers wardroom\, a talk about the Apollo 11 Earth Landing System\, given by an engineer who was directly involved in its development\, an awards session\, and finally there will be a special Apollo 11 themed guided tour aboard the ship\, including a special exhibit on the same theme. \n  \nTalk: The Apollo 11 Earth Landing System by Anthony “Mac” Smith \nThis talk will consist of two main parts. The first part focuses on the pre-Apollo history\, and gives a 10-year timespan overview of several milestones of the space program up to\, and including\, Apollo 11. The second part elaborates on the personal experiences of the speaker by means of a pre-recorded interview which was made for the Hornet Museum Archives. There will be an opportunity for Q&A at the end of the presentation. \nAnthony “Mac” Smith has over fifty years of relevant technical and management experience in reliability/ availability/maintainability (RAM)\, component and system design\, hardware test and evaluation\, data management\, product assurance\, system safety\, product RAM and operational readiness reviews\, and plant maintenance optimization via the RCM methodology. He received a BSc in Mechanical Engineering at the John Hopkins University in 1953 and an MSc in Mechanical Engineering from Drexel University in 1961. He served among others as platoon leader in the US Army\, spent more than 20 years at General Electric in the divisions of Missile & Space\, Jet Engines\, and Nuclear\, and is currently still a consultant for projects in the energy\, aerospace and industrial sectors. He is also an internationally recognized expert in the area of maintenance strategies and optimization of preventive maintenance programs for complex plants. \nBusiness casual attire suggested. Please wear comfortable shoes\, preferably flats\, as there is a narrow set of stairs to climb. \nThere are a limited number of tickets. Registration will close on Saturday at midnight. \n  \nSchedule:\n4:30 Doors open \n5:00 Dinner starts \n5:30 Awards ceremony \n6:00 Speaker presentation \n7:30 Docent-led tours \n9:00 End \n  \nMembers: $39\, \nNon-members: $49\, \nStudents: $19\, valid student ID required at the door \nPrices will go up after September 8th \n  \nRegister here: \nhttps://aiaa-sf.org/registration/ \nShare this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://aiaa-sf.org/event/aiaa-banquet-2019/
LOCATION:USS Hornet\, 707 W Hornet Ave\, Alameda\, CA\, 94501\, United States
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