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 […]

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 […]

RSVP for the Annual Awards Dinner

Happy July 4th, all! Hope you are enjoying the day with loved ones. The RSVP form for the Annual Awards Dinner is available. Please RSVP at the event’s page to select the applicable options and pay via PayPal. Please RSVP by Wednesday, July 25, 2012. If you are experiencing any difficulties with using the form, […]