AIAA Los Angeles-Las Vegas Section

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(A Hybrid Meeting with in-person and online attendance)
You are invited to join us for an exciting meeting with the AIAA LA-LV Section on December 7, 2023:

The Aircraft Designers: A Northrop Grumman Historical Perspective with Michael Ciminera

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Who?
Mr. Michael Ciminera
Northrop Grumman Vice President, Retired
AIAA Associate Fellow | AIAA Member Emeritus
(The speaker will present in person.)
Presented by:
American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics
LA/LV Section Technical Meeting
Moderator:
Mr. Gary Moir
AIAA LA-LV Section Technical Chair
AIAA Member Emeritus

When?
6:30-8:00 PM, December 7, 2023
(5:30 PM Check-in, Networking)

Where?
Palos Verdes Peninsula Center Library
701 Silver Spur Road, Rolling Hills Estates, CA, US, 90274

*Free Admission
*Donation and Food options available (voluntary)
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Presentation Synopsis:
The Aircraft Designers: A Northrop Grumman Historical Perspective with Michael Ciminera, Northrop Grumman Vice President, Retired. Mike Ciminera has covered the incredible saga of the Northrop lineage from the earliest days of the flying wings to the modern era of highly successful strategically deterrent aircraft and some of the most formidable tactical aircraft in the modern combat aviation inventory. The book and presentation concentrate on the engineers & designers who developed the configurations and designs of these aircraft and their contributions, demonstrating that it takes a dedicated team to accomplish dramatic advances in the state of the art. Mike, who himself has played a significant role in the development of modern tactical aircraft, will share his insights with us which has led us to the eagerly anticipated volumes that preserves a significant portion of American aviation history.

This presentation (based on the new book volumes) tells the story of the aircraft designers and teammates who created, designed, developed, and tested many manned and unmanned aircraft over the course of more than 100 years, starting from the days when Jack Northrop was a draftsman engineer in 1916. These innovators, who devoted their time, intellect, and passion to the most demanding of technological industries, are remembered and brought to life in these books through stories and photos. Eagerly awaited follow-ups to Cimlnera's 2013 book The Aircraft Designers: A Grumman Historical Perspective, these new book volumes (will be briefed in this talk) are more comprehensive than their predecessor as they cover a longer historical period (nominally 100 years versus 65 years); provide a deeper look at the design evolution and characteristics; allow the reader (the attendees will see some examples during this presentation) to graphically see design trends with the addition of special charts as opposed to just verbal descriptions; and Include a large chapter devoted to targets and unmanned autonomous systems.
Please contact technical-chair@aiaa-lalv.org, or gary.moir@ingenuir.com, if you have any questions.

Thank you for your attention and response and look forward to seeing you at this event.

Sincerely,

Gary Moir (Technical Chair)
technical-chair@aiaa-lalv.org,
gary.moir@ingenuir.com

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AIAA LA-LV 12/9 Section (Town Hall) Meeting
(A hybrid event: In-person and online attendance)
Saturday, December 9, 2023, 11 AM PST (GMT -0800)
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In-Person attendance is better, but online welcome. Please join us!
Commercialization of Space Biomedicine:
How SpaceBox Accelerates Drug Screening in Microgravity
(Presented also in the AIAA ASCEND 2023 in Las Vegas, NV)
Presenter:
Alina Voronina
Chief Business Development Officer at SpaceBox Scientific
(This speaker will present in person.)
Yaroslav Zaplatnikov
Founder and CEO of SpaceBox Scientific
(This speaker will present remotely on-line.)
also:
Cosmic Sunscreen –
Modulating the DNA Repair Response to Shield Astronauts from Cancer
Dr. Devon Lundine
Post-doctoral research fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center(This speaker will present remotely on-line.)
(Additional talk(s)/speaker(s) might be added.)
Location
Artesia Library
18801 Elaine Avenue, Artesia, CA 90701
(South of 91 Hwy / 5 Hwy, East of 605 Hwy, West of 5 Hwy / 91 Hwy, North of 405 Hwy)
Google Maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/yJtunRZQDj5SKsZ46
(Near Cerritos, Norwalk, Bellflower, Lakewood, and Long Beach.)
(also online on Zoom for a hybrid event)
(This program is not sponsored or endorsed by LA County Library.)
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(Free admission, open to the public)
(Online registration is required for logistics / seats arrangements.)

Join us at the AIAA Los Angeles - Las Vegas Section meeting to explore in-space drug development with SpaceBox Scientific! Discover how spaceflight conditions are reshaping pharmaceutical innovation and why big pharma is heading to space.
Hear from our speakers, Yaroslav Zaplatnikov and Alina Voronina, finalists of the 2023 Humans in Space Challenge. They'll delve into the use cases of space-based biomedical research. SpaceBox Scientific, a pioneering startup, is democratizing life science experiments for everyone, from major pharmaceutical companies to universities and high schools.
Meet Alina Voronina, Chief Business Development Officer at SpaceBox Scientific. Her research career started early at the age of 12 when she was a scientist at the Junior Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Currently, Alina is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences and is actively involved in cancer and organoid studies!
Yaroslav Zaplatnikov, founder and CEO of SpaceBox Scientific. With his expertise in molecular biology and genetics, Yaroslav has teamed up with aerospace and biomedicine experts, to develop automated life sciences minilabs for scalable microgravity research.
Join us at the AIAA meeting for this enlightening session!
Yaroslav Zaplatnikov
Alina Voronina
Cosmic Sunscreen –
Modulating the DNA Repair Response to Shield Astronauts from Cancer
Devon Lundine is a post-doctoral research fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He completed his doctoral training at the CUNY Graduate Center where he examined DNA replication speeds in triple-negative breast cancers harboring mutant p53 proteins. Currently, he focuses primarily on DNA repair mechanisms and has projects in the radiosensitization of HPV+ cancers, and in radioprotection for astronauts during long-term spaceflight missions.
Yaroslav Zaplatnikov
Tentative Agenda: (All Time PST (GMT -0800))
10:30 am: 11:00 am: Check-in, Networking
11:00 am: 11:05 am: Welcome and Introduction
11:05 am: 12:35 pm: Presentations, Q&A, Displays
12:35 pm: Networking, Adjourn
02:00 pm: Leave Meeting Room by 2 pm
Artesia Library (Meeting Room)
18801 Elaine Avenue
Artesia, CA 90701

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Please join us for an insightful holiday meeting with the AIAA LA-LV Section on Tuesday, December 12, 2023:
AIAA LA-LV 12/12 Section Meeting (On-line)
Tuesday, December 12, 2023, 5 PM - 7 PM PST (GMT -0800)
(US and Canada)
"SPACEPOWER-Star Shield, Proven & Patented
Peacemaker for Peace On Earth & Above!"
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speakers:
Mr. Shawn P. Boike
CEO & President of AIC & Insta-Grid
United States Space Force via AIC & Insta-Grid
Los Angeles, CA
(This speaker will present on-line remotely.)
Professor David C. Hyland, Sc.D.
Professor Emeritus, Aerospace Engineering
Adjunct Professor of Physics, College of Science
Wisenbaker Chair of Engineering
Director, Space Science and Space Engineering Research
Texas A&M University (Emeritus)
President, Augusta Quantum Electrodynamics Inc
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Disclaimer: The views of the speakers do not represent the views of AIAA or the AIAA Los Angeles-Las Vegas Section. This is not a course to train people how to start a business.

American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Los Angeles Section |
2629 Manhattan Ave #1020, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254
Contact: contac@aiaa-lalv.org
https://www.aiaa-lalv.org

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AIAA LA-LV 12/16 Section (Town Hall) Meeting
(A hybrid event: In-person and online attendance)
Saturday, December 16, 2023, 11 AM PST (GMT -0800)
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Safe Is Not An Option:
Overcoming The Futile Obsession With Getting Everyone Back Alive That Is Killing Our Expansion Into Space
Presenter:
Rand Simberg, MSE
Consultant in Aerospace Industries
Adjunct Scholar at Competitive Enterprise Institute,
Book Author,
Freelancer at Popular Mechanics, and
President at Interglobal Space Lines.
Formerly in engineering and management at the Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo, CA
Former project manager with Rockwell International Rockwell International in Downey, CA
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Location
Lawndale Library (Meeting Room)
14615 Burin Ave., Lawndale, CA 90260
(South of 105 Hwy and East of 405 Hwy/Pacific Coast Hwy (1))
(Near SpaceX Hawthorne; Close to Northrop Grumman Space Park)
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(This event is not sponsored or endorsed by the Lawndale Library or the LA County Library.)
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The history of exploration and establishment of new lands, science and technologies has always entailed risk to the health and lives of the explorers. Yet, when it comes to exploring and developing the high frontier of space, the harshest frontier ever, the highest value is apparently not the accomplishment of those goals, but of minimizing, if not eliminating, the possibility of injury or death of the humans carrying them out.
For decades since the end of Apollo, human spaceflight has been very expensive and relatively rare (about 500 people total, with a death rate of about 4%), largely because of this risk aversion on the part of the federal government and culture. From the Space Shuttle, to the International Space Station, the new commercial crew program to deliver astronauts to it, and the regulatory approach for commercial spaceflight providers, our attitude toward safety has been fundamentally irrational, expensive and even dangerous, while generating minimal accomplishment for maximal cost.
This presentation (based on the book of the same title) entertainingly explains why this means that we must regulate passenger safety in the new commercial spaceflight industry with a lighter hand than many might instinctively prefer, that NASA must more carefully evaluate rewards from a planned mission to rationally determine how much should be spent to avoid the loss of participants, and that Congress must stop insisting that safety is the highest priority, for such insistence is an eloquent testament to how unimportant they and the nation consider the opening of this new frontier.

Rand Simberg, MSE
Rand Simberg is a former project manager with Rockwell International having previously worked at the Aerospace Corporation. At Rockwell, he worked on a number of advanced concepts, including solar power satellites, launch and orbit transfer systems, space tethers, and lunar resource utilization. He has been cited as an expert in space transportation by the (now defunct) Office of Technology Assessment, and has provided key input into a number of space policy reports. He was editor of the Space Activists' Handbook (a publication of Spacepac) for several years. For the past thirty years, he has been the President of Interglobal Space Lines, Inc., a commercial space entrepreneurial company and consultancy, specializing in low-cost space access and tourism. He has dual degrees in engineering from the University of Michigan (concentrating in astronautics) and a masters in technical management from West Coast University, in Los Angeles. He writes regularly at PJ Media, The New Atlantis, and occasionally at National Review. He has written many pieces for Popular Mechanics, Fox News, America Online, PJMedia, National Review, Reason magazine, The Weekly Standard, and the Washington Times, among others. He has also written extensive essays on space policy and technology for the quarterly journal, The New Atlantis.
Tentative Agenda: (All Time PST (GMT -0800))
10:15 am - 11:00 am: Check-in, Networking
11:00 am - 11:05 am: Welcome and Introduction
11:05 am - 12:35 pm: Presentations and Q&A
02:00 pm: (Leave the Meeting Room by 2 pm PST)
Lawndale Library (Meeting Room)
14615 Burin Ave., Lawndale, CA 90260
(South of 105 Hwy and East of 405 Hwy/Pacific Coast Hwy (1))

Disclaimer: The views of the speakers do not represent the views of AIAA or the AIAA Los Angeles-Las Vegas Section
[AIAA Los Angeles-Las Vegas Section], [contact@aiaa-lalv.org], [https://www.aiaa-lalv.org]

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AIAA LA-LV Section Meeting 1/27
Saturday, January 27, 2024
In the Line of Duty:
Michael Adams and the X-15
by
Ms. Michelle Evans
(The speaker will present in person)
Author, Bestseller "The X-15 Rocket Plane, Flying the First Wings into Space"
Founder and President, Mach 25 Media (www.Mach25Media.com)
AIAA Distinguished Speaker
Writer, Photographer, and Communications Specialist in aerospace
(Free Admission. Open to Public. Online registration required for logistics. Lunch not provided by AIAA LA-LV Section. Welcome to bring own lunch. Donation is highly for covering the event expenses / student scholarship.)
Who?
Michelle Evans is the founder of Mach 25 Media (www.Mach25Media.com) and is a writer, photographer, and communications specialist in aerospace. She has written the bestselling book “The X-15 Rocket Plane, Flying the First Wings into Space” which was published by the University of Nebraska Press as part of their “Outward Odyssey, People's History of Spaceflight” series.
Michelle's background in aerospace engineering includes serving in the US Air Force working on missile systems, and later in private industry accomplishing environmental testing for systems used in airliners and spacecraft. Her current work primarily involves exciting audiences about space exploration by speaking of the X-15 and other areas of the space program at venues across the country, as well as overseas.
Michelle is a Distinguished Speaker with the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and her book on the X-15 was a finalist for the Eugene M. Emme Award for Astronautical Literature. Michelle received the Diverse Community Leader Award from Orange County Human Relations, and was recognized as number 3 on the Orange County Register’s list of the 100 Most Influential People in Orange County. She has appeared in numerous publications, including Air & Space Smithsonian, Ad Astra, Orange County Register, Los Angeles Times, and the New York Times. Michelle had feature stories about her life in both Time and Newsweek magazines. She was a technical consultant on the Neil Armstrong biopic “First Man,” and has consulted with National Geographic television for “The Real Right Stuff.”
What?
In the Line of Duty: Michael Adams and the X-15
The X-15 rocket plane was America’s premiere experimental research aircraft. It became the first manned craft to reach hypersonic velocities, and to create a new class of astronauts, ones who flew wings into space rather than rockets. The twelfth and final of these pilot/astronauts was Major Michael Adams from the US Air Force.
As soon as the first group of American astronauts was announced in 1959, Adams knew where his career would take him. He was twice forestalled in his attempts to reach space. First by losing a slot in the second group of American astronauts because of injuries sustained in an F-104 ejection, then by being chosen for the Air Force’s Manned Orbiting Laboratory, which was canceled when politics entered the fray.
Adams saw the X-15 as his new pathway to space, and was quickly accepted into that elite group, which included such legendary test pilots as Scott Crossfield, Joe Walker, and Neil Armstrong. Mike Adams was the only X-15 pilot to lose his life while flying the program. Because of this, few people know of him
today.
Michelle Evans’ research for her book, “The X-15 Rocket Plane, Flying the First Wings into Space” led her to interview nearly 70 people connected to the program, including Adams’ wife, children, brother, and friends. Her unique perspective has been able to honor Major Michael J. Adams, and to bring him to life as one of the X-15 astronauts in her fascinating presentation.

Where?
Norwalk Regional Library, in the Meeting Room
12350 Imperial Hwy
Norwalk, CA 90650
Google Maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/41e8HHfPZd7EavSE6
(This event is not sponsored by the Norwalk Library)

Parking
(Free Library Parking in the Library Parking Lot on the back side of the library.)
When?
Saturday, January 27, 2024, 11:15 AM - 2:30 PM PDT
Introduction/Presentation starts at 12:55 PM / 1:00 PM
Dress Code
No open-toe shoes (except for medical purposes or needs)
Contact:
events.aiaalalv@gmail.com

Tentative Agenda: (All Time PST (GMT -0800))
11:00 am PST: Check-in, Networking.
11:30 am PST: Documentary film "Research Project X-15" (25 minutes)
12:00 pm PST: Lunch for those who bring own's lunch. Networking. Book-signing
12:55 pm PST: Welcome and Introduction
01:00 pm PST: Presentations and Q&A
02:30 pm PST: Documentary film "The Rocket Pilots" (75 minutes), commentary/further Q&A
04:00 pm PST: Adjourn. Networking.
05:00 pm PST: Leave meeting room by 5 pm.
Disclaimer: The views of the speakers do not represent the views of AIAA or the AIAA Los Angeles-Las Vegas Section