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September 28, 2007

Werner Von Braun's Long Road to Mars: A Story Within a Story
Dr. Albert Jackson / ESCG
Publicity Flier: PDF
Presentation: PDF

June 16, 2005

Aerospace on the FASTRAC: Student Built Satellites at the University of Texas
Dr. E. Glenn Lightsey / The University of Texas at Austin
Flier: PDF

May 19, 2005

Hierarchical Navigation Algorithms in Support of Mars Exploration
Robert H. Bishop / The University of Texas at Austin
Flier: DOC
Presentation: PDF

September 17, 2004

Trajectory Optimization from Euler to Lawden to Today
Christopher D'Souza / The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory
Flier: PDF
Presentation: PPT, 2.61 MB

March 24, 2004

Jules Verne and ISS, European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) First Rendezvous and Docking for a European Spacecraft
Brian Rishikof / Odyssey Space Research
Flier: PDF
Presentation: PPT, 3.25 MB

December 19, 2003

StarNav-1 Experiment on STS-107
Dr. Thomas C. Pollock / Texas A&M University
Flier: PDF

November 14, 2003

Spacecraft Fuel-Optimal Maneuvers, Apollo to Shuttle Return-to-Flight
Rob Hall / Draper Laboratory

We plan 2 to 4 of these events per year

Available Videos

These events are professionally videotaped by NASA/USA.
Video recordings of these events are available for free loans for the following speakers:
Hall, Rishikof, and Lightsey.
AIAA membership is not required.

• Dr. Albert Jackson, ESCG, Chair

• Douglas Yazell, Honeywell

• Dr. Tim Crain, EG5 Advanced Mission Design, NASA JSC

• Prerit Shah, United Space Alliance

• Chang Keem, ISS GN&C Project, Akima Fac. Mgmt.

If you are interested in joining the work of the committee, contact any member or Douglas Yazell at 281-244-3925. We are always looking for qualified professional and student members.

To provide a forum for exchange of ideas and information regarding the state of the art and the future of astrodynamics. To stimulate education, professional development, and accomplishment by fostering communication and by providing resources.

• Recruit members for the technical committee and AIAA
• Recruit one technical committee member from each 'astrodynamics' company in the Clear Lake Area
• Encourage lectures from government, industry, and universities
• Monitor and contribute to the mirror committee on the national level
• Organize lunch-and-learn sessions in the the Houston Clear Lake area (2 or more per year)
• Focus on the technical challenges of the next 3-5 years
• Meet 3-4 times/year, sometimes with national committee, to focus on technical issues in the field.
• Interact with other AIAA technical committees, other professional societies, and universities
• Survey tools and techniques
• Initiate and review reports on astrodynamics of missions to Mars