AIAA Houston Dinner Meeting: Blowout in the Gulf of Mexico: Lessons from Offshore Drilling that are Applicable to Aerospace

Join AIAA Houston in welcoming Mr. Wayne Hale, Jr. as our speaker for the next AIAA dinner meeting on the evening of March 28th. Deepwater offshore drilling rivals orbital space launch for engineering complexity, extreme environments, and technological challenge. The major failure in the Gulf of Mexico mirrors the Challenger and Columbia accidents. Mr. Hale will […]

January/February Issue of Horizons Available

The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Houston Section January / February 2013 Horizons newsletter is now available in high resolution and low resolution formats (PDF). Cover story: A Geologist and Curiosity on Mars by Dr. Dorothy Oehler, Tau Ceti Exoplanet Candidates by Wes Kelly of Triton Systems LLC, The Late Science Fiction Author […]

February Dinner Meeting Recap and Upcoming Events

February Dinner Meeting Mrs. Romero did a fantastic job presenting about CPAS at the dinner meeting this past Thursday. See the charts (MS PowerPoint), video montage of the Generation 1 and 2 tests (Windows Media File), and another video (Windows Media File). More videos are available at the NASA CPAS YouTube Channel. Upcoming Events Yuri’s […]

AIAA Houston Dinner with CPAS – Save the Date!

The AIAA Houston Section invites you to save an evening for dinner and a discussion of the Capsule Parachute Assembly System (CPAS) with Mrs. Leah Romero.  Mrs. Romero has participated in 10 CPAS drop tests as the lead analyst on the load train predictions which determine margins of safety for test support equipment.  Currently she […]