AIAA SF, P.O. Box 1548, Mountain View, CA 94042-1548
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AIAA SF, P.O. Box 1548, Mountain View, CA 94042-1548 |
The San Francisco section of the AIAA serves about 1100 members of AIAA in the San Francisco Bay area. The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is the world's premier organization for professionals in aerospace and aeronautics.
Send questions to webmaster@aiaa-sf.org. We also have an archive of past events.
Monday, January 16, 2012; 6:30-9:00pm
Michael's at Shoreline, Mountain View, CA
As we look beyond the Shuttle era, NASA has accumulated over 50 years of experience with developing and implementing operations concepts for human missions into space. However, no crewed mission has ever been mounted to a destination beyond the Earth-Moon system. One of the grandest challenges that NASA must meet in order to enable journeys to more distant destinations, such as Mars, is how to “re-tool” mission operations to adapt to the fact that speed-of-light limitations are going to force astronauts to deal with unplanned mission problems, such as systems malfunctions and equipment failures, without real-time assistance from the Earth. Dr. Robert McCann, of NASA Ames, will identify the scope of this problem using examples from Apollo missions, and discuss the various technologies that must be developed, tested, and built to provide the astronauts with the capabilities they will need to manage their missions when they are millions of miles from home. [ More info and RSVP ]
Recent Joint AIAA SF/SVSC TechTalk
Thursday, December 1, 2011; 6:30-8:00pm
Hacker Dojo, 140 S. Whisman Rd., Mountain View, CA
Free; RSVP requested
Designed originally for smartphones and tablets, mobile application processors have expanded their impact to robotics and small avionics. Like their larger cousins, many of these provide hardware support for 4-element floating point vectors, thereby making them attractive for guidance, navigation, and control. Their small size and low cost have made them ideal for university research and even hobbyist projects. [ More info and sign-up ]
Recent AIAA SF Dinner Meeting
Monday, December 5, 2011; 6:30-9:00pm
Sheraton Sunnyvale Hotel, Sunnyvale, CA Note change of date and location
The Space Show is a live call-in Internet radio show with a global following, and a spectrum of discussion about the emerging space commerce and tourism industry. Show host Dr. David Livingston has interviewed many experts from NASA and industry, including many from the Silicon Valley and NASA Ames area. They have discussed a broad range of technical and economic issues. This time, after a decade of hosting the show, we turn the tables. He will be our guest, and our host, Lynn Baroff, will ask and moderate questions to David. [ More info ]
AIAA SF wishes to thank and recognize those who have been continuous members
of AIAA or its predecessors (IAS and ARS) on their 25, 40, 50, 60, and 70 years
of membership. These dedicated members include:
70 years:
John A. Stern
60 years:
Frank M. Friedlaender
50 years:
Stephen C. De Brock, Robert F. Flagg, John T. Hart
40 years:
Brian J. Cantwell, Anthony R. Gross, John M. Klineberg, Mohamad A. Yousef
25 years:
Jay H. Ambrose, Bimal L. Aponso, Larry L. Chien, Leroy E. Dove,
Dennis M. Haas, Dean A. Kontinos, Sastri Kota, Bernadette Luna,
Nagi N. Mansour, Gary L. Martin, James W. McDonald, Frank S. Milos,
Jayanta Panda, David R. Schleicher, Duc T. Tran, Ethiraj Venkatapathy
People with 25 and 40 year anniversaries receive certificates from HQ. Those that have 50 years become emeritus, and they receive a special notification also. Please join us in congratulating these dedicated members.
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