AIAA - Tucson Section

Our AIAA Tucson Section member, John Kelly was the guest speak at the Arizona Space Business Roundtable, UA today. Great job, John!

About John Kelly:
John Kelly of NASA’s Flight Opportunities program is part of NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate. Flight Opportunities rapidly demonstrates promising technologies for space exploration, discovery, and the expansion of space commerce through suborbital and hosted orbital testing with industry flight providers.

The program matures capabilities needed for NASA missions and commercial applications while strategically investing in the growth of the U.S. commercial spaceflight industry. These flight tests take technologies from ground-based laboratories into relevant environments to increase technology readiness and validate feasibility while reducing the costs and technical risks of future missions. Awards and agreements for flight test are open to researchers from industry, academia, non-profit research institutes, and government organizations. These investments help advance technologies of interest to NASA while supporting commercial flight providers and expanding space-based applications and commerce.

John helped establish the Flight Opportunities program in 2010-11 and was program manager until Feb 2013, when he left for a detail assignment at Mojave Air and Space Port. John resumed management of the program in Nov 2018 and managed it through Oct 2022. He is currently a senior advisor to the program. He lives in Tucson and is active in the local chapters of AIAA and PMI.

Join us this weekend for our annual Holiday Mixer ---- a year-end social for the AIAA community with the UArizona AIAA student branch for festivities and fun!

Saturday, December 2nd, 7pm at the Tucson Hop Shop

Transforming our future by introducing your daughters and sons to Astronauts Eileen Collins and her crewmate Charles Camarda.
Free Admission

Date & Time: Oct 7th, 10am - 5pm
Place: Crystal Event Center, 610 W Prince Rd, Tucson, Arizona

She would be happy to autograph her book "Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars: The Story of the First American Woman to Command a Space Mission"

Who would be interested in a AIAA Tucson Section event at Musselman Honda Circuit?

The REAL Hidden Figures!

Invitation
Speaker: Ms. Mary Jackson Named Lecture 2023
Mary Jackson's story features in the 2016 non-fiction book Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race. She is one of the three protagonists in Hidden Figures, the film adaptation released the same year.

Free to the Public

Please register at Link: https:// www.aiaa.org/events-learning/event/2023/03/16/default-calendar/breaking-the-space-sector-rules-a-mary-jackson-lecture

Date: Thursday, March 16, 2023
Time: 10AM -11AM (Arizona Time)
1PM – 2PM (Eastern Time)

Event Details:
This webinar is a part of the annual Mary Jackson Lecture Series hosted by the Royal Aeronautical Society and the AIAA Diversity Working Group. We are delighted to welcome Dr Jason Maroothynaden MRAeS.

Speakers
Dr Jason Maroothynaden MRAeS
Jason is an internationally experienced early-stage venture builder, and investor deeply involved in the space industry. While at ESA, Jason headed up access to finance in particular working in partnership with Venture Capital and Business Angel funds, occasionally for co-investment opportunities.

NOTE: Students 6 - 12: Free AIAA Membership,
Link: https://www.aiaa.org/membership/types-of-membership/high-school-student-membership

AIAA STEM Club members had tons of fun building and launching rockets last weekend at University of Arizona field. The activity was led by Southern Arizona Rocketry Association (SARA).

Thanks for all you do, Michelle Rouch , to bring impactful STEM activities to the Tucson K-12 communities!

Happy ! AIAA is committed to building a STEM-literate workforce by supporting educators and students with curriculum, programs, scholarships, awards, and more.

Check out these AIAA resources for:

K-12 Students – https://bit.ly/3TmXS3U

Educators – https://bit.ly/3NPzsPu

University Students – https://bit.ly/3NRLtUt

Do you know an amazing STEM educator in Tucson? Nominate them today....

Trailblazing STEM Educator Award Trailblazing STEM Educator Award

Don't miss it!

The Great Paper Airplane Fly-off https://pimaair.org/great-paper-airplane-fly-off/

First STEM Club session today! Thank you Dr. Clement for leading the session. The student truly enjoyed themselves.