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 |
Thursday, June 24, 2010; 6:30pm-9:00pm
Michaels at Shoreline, Mountain View
David Levinson
Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company
Palo Alto, California
It is well known that falling cats can reorient themselves so as to land on their feet. Consideration of this fact leads naturally to the following question: Could astronauts in space proceed similarly to achieve useful self-reorientations without having to make physical contact with other objects?
This is the story of how Stanford Applied Mechanics professor Thomas R. Kane became interested in the falling cat phenomenon, how it led him and several of his graduate students to use dynamical analysis to devise self-reorientation procedures for astronauts, and how Kane and his students dealt with the bureaucratic hurdles they encountered in their quest for permission to test their theories on astronauts in the orbiting Skylab space station.
David Levinson is a Senior Staff Research Engineer at the Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company. His field of expertise is the dynamics of complex systems of interconnected rigid bodies. Mr. Levinson is an Associate Fellow of the AIAA and has been honored three times by the AIAA San Francisco Section as Engineer of the Year: In 1984, he was named the section's Outstanding Young Engineer; in 1989, he received the award in Astronautics; and in 1997, he was designated the section's Engineering Educator of the Year.
* Young Professionals are AIAA members under age 35.
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Registration and no-host cocktails at 6:30 pm;
buffet dinner at 7:00 pm;
program starts at 7:30 pm;
program ends at 9:30 pm.
This meeting is open to the general public.
Michael's at Shoreline
2960 N Shoreline Blvd
Mountain View, CA,94043
650-962-1014
Map: Google
For more information about this meeting, contact AIAA SF Programs Director Sylvee Walenczewski .
-->Registration and no-host cocktails at 6:30 pm;
buffet dinner at 7:00 pm;
program starts at 7:30 pm;
program ends at 9:30 pm.
This meeting is open to the general public.