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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)
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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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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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