AIAA history

Other staff positions were also eliminated: the ARS had had 49 staff members, the IAS had 67, but by July 1964, the total was down to 87, not including the specialists involved in the indexing operations, called the Technical Information Service.

In 1967, the Technical Committee on Space and Atmospheric Science launched a study to capture the opinion of its members in California on the UFO phenomenon.

Air launched from a B-52 aircraft, the X-15 set a number of speed and altitude records before its final flight on October 24, 1968.

Printed in 1977, this informative and entertaining book had long been out of print It is now for sale for $47.00 (domestic postpaid) and $58.75 (internationally), from the US Superintendent of Documents.

The new text will be the first major work to document the Center’s history since Moonport: A History of Apollo Launch Facilities and Operations, was published in 1978.

Originally published in 1984 as NASA SP-4303, this well-regarded book was written by Richard P. Hallion.

In late 1999 a much awaited institutional history of the Marshall Space Flight Center was published. It traces the evolution of the institution from its origins as an Army missile development organization to its status in 1990 as one of the most diversified of NASA's field Centers.

The most notable achievement of AIAA during this time, however, was the creation of the AIAA Foundation in 1996 to administer AIAA-funded awards and scholarships.

Power to Explore: A History of the Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA SP-4313, 1999), was written by Andrew J. Dunar and Stephen P. Waring, history faculty members at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

On 26-29 May 2000 the National Space Society’s 19th Annual International Space Development Conference will be held at the Holiday Inn City Center Hotel in Tucson, Arizona.

The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics is currently accepting abstracts for history papers to be presented at a history session scheduled for its 36th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting scheduled for 8-11 January 2001.

After nearly twelve years of service as the NASA Chief Historian, Doctor Roger D. Launius will be leaving the agency on 26 July 2002.

The AIAA History Committee is still seeking papers for two sessions at the 41st Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, 6-9 January 2003, Reno, Nevada.