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The Newsletter of AIAA Albuquerque Section

The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics AIAA ALBUQUERQUE ATOMIC SENSORS – REV OLUTIONIZING POSITION, NAVIGATION AND TIMING DR. BRIAN KASCH, AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABO RATORY RVBYE INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Atomic physics is no longer SECTION CALENDAR 2 strictly a laboratory venture. Increas-

MAY MEETING DETAILS 3 ingly, "quantum engineering" is By Arup Maji—Programs bringing the innate precision of at- FELLOWS AND ANNIVERSARIES 4 oms to real-world devices. While AIAA SECTION SCHOLARSHIP AWARD 4 atomic sensors have demonstrated SCIENCE FAIR WINNERS 5 state-of-the-art detection of inertial

UNM ROCKET ENGINEERING UPDATE 5 forces (acceleration and rotation), magnetic fields, and the passage of er grid timing, air traffic control, on OFFICER BIOS 6 time, realizing robust devices contin- trains, on ships, etc. GPS is vulnerable ASTRONAUT HARRISON SCHMITT EVENT 11 ues to present extraordinary chal- to solar flares, jamming, spoofing, and AIAA REGION IV STUDENT CONFERENCE 13 lenges. Dr. Kasch discussed how direct attack (anti-satellite.) It does

UNM OFFERS COMPOSITES COURSE 15 atomic sensors are transitioning not work underwater, and may not be from pure research to fielded envi- available indoors, in canyons, or in THIS MONTH IN AIR AND SPACE HISTORY 16 ronments. cities with tall buildings. PHOTO OF THE MONTH 17 These technologies promise Inertial measurement units SECTION INFORMATION 18 to revolutionize position, navigation are also used to get location. Atomic and timing for DoD and civilian appli- interferometer can be used for iner- cations. Furthermore, devices based tial navigation, but needs develop- on atomic sensing will open up new ment to be practical. AFRL is working avenues of scientific exploration on confined atom interferometry and ranging from tests of Einstein's also trying to reduce the cost. AFRL equivalence principle, to the detec- believes that quantum information tion of gravitational waves. science can yield unprecedented GPS systems are time based, warfighting capability. so extremely accurate clocks are needed for the system to give accurate location information. Currently there is only one supplier for GPS clocks. Atomic clock technology is improving. They have gone from microwave to optical technology. GPS is a vital technology. It is expensive and has high operating costs. GPS is used in many places such as bank transactions for time stamping, pow- THE FLIGHT PLAN M A Y 2 0 1 8

CALENDAR Upcoming U.S. Launches NET May 31 Falcon 9 • SES 12 June Falcon 9 • Telstar 19V Local Chapter Events June 28 Falcon 9 • SpaceX CRS 15

July Falcon 9 • Iridium Next 56-65 Thursday 24 May — Section Meeting Dr Jeffry Heggemeier, AFRL —Max Power: High Power Microwave Mid-2018 Falcon 9 • Telkom 4 System developed on KAFB. July Falcon 9 • Spaceflight SSO-A Copper Canyon Café: 5455 Gibson Blvd, Albuquerque July 31 Delta 4-Heavy • Parker Solar 5:30pm Meet and greet Probe 5:45pm Dinner (order when ready) August Falcon 9 • Iridium Next 66-75 6:30pm Presentation and discussion

National AIAA Events

28 May - 1 June 2018 | Marseille, France SpaceOps 2018

25 - 29 June 2018 | Atlanta, GA AIAA Aviation and Aeronautics Forum and Exposition (AIAA AVIATION 2018) 10th AIAA Atmospheric and Space Environments Conference 12th AIAA/ASME Joint Thermophysics and Heat Transfer Conference 18th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference 19th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference 34th AIAA Aerodynamic Measurement Technology and Ground Testing Conference 36th AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference 48th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference 49th AIAA Plasmadynamics and Lasers Conference 9th AIAA Flow Control Conference AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference AIAA Flight Testing Conference AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Conference

9 - 11 July 2018 | Cincinnati, OH AIAA Propulsion and Energy Forum and Exposition (AIAA Propulsion and Energy 2018)

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MAX POWER: HIGH POWE R MICROWAVE SYSTEM DEVELOPED ON KIRTLAND AFB

BY DR. JEFFRY HEGGEM E I E R , A F R L Abstract:

In 2012, a team of scientists, engineers, and technicians deployed from Kirtland AFB, NM to Helmand Province, Afghanistan. They had spent several years developing a technology and a prototype system to neu- tralize improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and now they were taking it into combat. Some of them were contractors and some were military, but all helped build this system called MAX POWER. This high power microwave system was developed on Kirtland AFB and tested all throughout the Southwest US by this team. Some of the technical chal- lenges in developing this system included developing a direct-drive, high -speed, MW-class generator, developing a novel method (now patent- ed) for phase-locking microwave sources together, and developing a survivable high power, high gain antenna for directing the microwaves to the IEDs. This is the story of developing that system and operating it in combat, to save the lives of Marines and soldiers fighting there.

Speaker Bio:

Jeff is a research physicist with the Air Force Research Lab, Directed Energy Directorate. He is currently the Chief Engi- neer for the SHiELD (Self-Protect High Energy Laser Demonstrator) program, demonstrating an integrated laser weapon system on a tactical aircraft. He has previously worked in High Power Microwaves, developing systems to counter electronics, personnel, and improvised explosive devices (IEDs). He led the development of the MAX POWER High Power Microwave system and then deployed with that system as an Air Force Reservist to Afghanistan. Once there, he operated that system in combat, driving in front of US Army and Marine patrols in the most IED-intense places in Afghani- stan. Jeff received his PhD from the University of Minnesota. He and his wife, Katie, have four children, Jack, Tom, Matthew, and Alice, and they reside in Albuquerque, NM.

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ALBUQUERQUE SECTION AIAA CLASS OF 2018 A S S O C I A T E FELLOWS & ANNIVERSAR IES By: Stephen L. Seiffert, Ph.D.—Honors and Awards SNL The Albuquerque Section of AIAA Mark D. Fraser joins together to congratulate the Thomas M. Davis Large Section Retired following local members for their Public Policy Award professional accomplishments and Nathan P DeVilbiss, for their service to the Institute: Dr. Paolo Venneri, et al., ATA Engineering, LLC. Propulsion & Energy Group Class of 2018 Associate Fellows – Best Paper Dr. Lawrence M Roberson, III Srinivasan Arunajatesan USAF Institute Anniversaries Sandia National Laboratory James A. Theiss 2017-2018

Vincente J. Romero Members – 25 Years Emeritus – 50 Year Members Sandia National Laboratory Aron L. Adler Dr. Gregory F. Homicz Sectional Awards 2017– 2018 AFRL Emeritus – 60 Year Members Sally M. (Smith) Hanley Dr. Joseph A. Bonomett Large Section MDA Dr. Martine P. Sherman

Communications Award Dr. Christopher W. Bruner Emeritus – 70 + Year Members

THE ALBUQUERQUE SECT ION AIAA SELECTS 201 8 SCHOLARSHIP WINNER By: Stephen L. Seiffert, Ph.D.—Honors and Awards

The Albuquerque AIAA Section has Northern New Mexico College. cate of recognition at the 24 May established an annual scholarship The applicant must have demon- 2018, Albuquerque Section’s award. A single scholarship is strated all-around excellence in Honors and Awards Banquet. awarded in May of each calendar the pursuit of study in the art, Thank you to Corporate Liaison, year. This year’s scholarship will be science, and/or technologies of Dr. Neil McCasland, AIAA Associ- for the amount of $2,000.00. The aeronautics and/or astronautics. ate Fellow and Dr. Basil Hassan, scholarship is presented to an un- This year’s winner of the $2,000 AIAA Fellow, Manager, Sandia dergraduate or graduate student scholarship is Ms. Victoria I. National Laboratory, for the ap- enrolled in any of the four universi- Ramirez, an undergraduate Me- plicant evaluation effort. ties which are within the bounda- chanical Engineering student at Stephen L. Seiffert, Ph.D. ret., ries of the Albuquerque AIAA Sec- the University of New Mexico Associate Fellow AIAA tion: the University of NM, the NM and current AIAA Student Mem- Albuquerque AIAA Section: Honors and Awards Officer Institute of Mining and Technolo- ber. Ms. Ramirez will be present- gy, NM Highlands University, and ed the scholarship and a certifi- THE FLIGHT PLAN M A Y 2 0 1 8

AIAA ALBUQUERQUE SECTION SELECTS SCIENCE FAIR WINNERS By: Dr. Stephen L. Seiffert—Honors and Awards

The Albuquerque Section AIAA participated in the Central New Mexico Science & Engineering Research Chal- lenge held at the Manuel Lujan Exhibition Complex at Expo NM on Friday, 23 March 2018 and selected three awardees, one Senior Division and two Junior Division.

Senior Division Winner

Isabela G. Cenisceros 9th Grade Bernalillo High School Exhibit Title: “Effects of Geometry and Voltage on Ion Engine Design”

Junior Division Winners

Oliver M. Reuben 7th Grade Jefferson Middle School Exhibit Title: “Testing Shear Strength and Jaw Deflection of Three Different Adhesives”

Olivia D. Cole 7th Grade Jefferson Middle School Exhibit Title: “The ‘Far Out’ Spectrum of a Quasar”

The Albuquerque Section of AIAA joins together to congratulate these aspiring young students. The three winners will receive a certificate and a monetary award of $100, as well as, a one-year student membership in AIAA. They will attend the 24 May 2018 Section Honors & Awards banquet as our guests. UNM ROCKET LAUNCH UP DATE By: Ben Urioste—Editor UNM’s rocket engineering ture will be replaced with a team is working hard to finalize stronger composite material. their capstone project: to build the world’s largest amateur rocket. There is no launch date Students took lessons learned from set at this time but project man- last year’s launch and applied their ager Anthony Chavez is hopeful engineering knowledge to develop for completion and launch by a modified approach. Many of the end of June 2018. For now here structural elements remain the are some drawings as well as a same. For example they are still link to last year’s launch video. utilizing semi-monocoque struc- Lobo Launch 2017: ture but have made improvements to the interface connections at https://youtu.be/sgCwPPeOetg each section. Additionally the card- board phenolic tubing center struc- 5 THE FLIGHT PLAN M A Y 2 0 1 8

AIAA ABQ 2018 - 2019 OFFICER BIOS

By Ben Urioste—Editor

With AIAA ABQ 2018-2019 Elec- airborne optical testbed aircraft, tions wrapped up, here are the including special deployments to biographies of our new round of the South Pacific and to Korea. AIAA officers: He has attended several Congres- sional Visits Day events in Wash- Terry Caipen — Secretary ington DC to meet with congress- men, senators, and staffers con- Terry is a Senior Member of AIAA cerning issues in the aerospace co. She completed her under- and has been an AIAA member community (such as funding for graduate degree in business and since Oct 1978. He has served research and education), and to journalism with an emphasis in the Albuquerque section for promote Science, Technology, Public Relations at Baylor Univer- years as the Public Policy officer Engineering, and Mathematics sity in 2001, her Master's in Pub- and as Secretary. He is an engi- (STEM) education. He is our in- lic Administration from Bowie neer at Applied Research Associ- cumbent Public Policy officer and State University in 2007, a Mas- ates working on numerical simu- received the AIAA 2017 Public ter's in International Relations lations and computational fluid Policy Award. from Oklahoma University in dynamics. 2012 and is presently completing a Master's in Military Science Andrea Loper — Mark Fraser — Public Policy through Air University. As a level Career Enhancement 3 Certified Acquisition Program Mark is a Senior Member of AIAA Manager under the Defense Ac- Andrea is Member of AIAA. She and is an aerospace consultant quisition Workforce Improve- entered government service as a who teaches astronomy courses ment Act (DAWIA) and a Level Presidential Management Fellow at CNM. He has worked for a va- two certified space professional in 2008 and completed her fel- riety of defense contractors in with the Air Force, she's man- lowship at the Air Force Space the areas of ballistic missile de- aged acquisitions valued be- and Missile Systems Center in fense, infrared signatures, and tween $75M - $472M for the 2010 where she remained as remote sensing — supporting a U.S. Government. In 2012 Ms. Government Civilian Acquisition variety of Army, Air Force, De- Loper won the Air Force MilSat- Program Manager until Jan 2017. partment of Defense, and Intelli- Com Direction Civilian of the She now supports the Air Force gence programs. For several year award, in 2013 Ms. Loper Research Laboratory at Kirtland years he flew as a civilian crew AFB in Albuquerque, New Mexi- member on the Argus C-135E 6 THE FLIGHT PLAN M A Y 2 0 1 8

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won the Young AFCEAN of the AIAA and has been in AIAA since tive duty career in the US Air Year award for AFCEA Interna- Oct 1970. He has been Albuquer- Force, retiring in 2013 in the tional, and in 2015 the AFCEA que section treasurer since 1991. grade of Major General. He com- Emerging Leader Award. Robert was in the US Air Force manded the Air Force Research 1960-1986. Robert enlisted as an Laboratory in his last assign- Dr. Arup Maji—Programs Air-Launched Missile Systems ment, where he was responsible Technician. He received a degree for managing the Air Force's $2.2 Arup is a Senior Member of AIAA in Aerospace Engineering from billion science and technology and a professor at the University Auburn University in 1977. As an program, as well as additional of New Mexico where he has officer, he served as a High Ener- customer funded research and been on the faculty since 1988. gy Laser Weapon Systems Ana- development. He was also re- Dr. Maji served as Interim Dean lyst and Air-Launched Weapon sponsible for a global workforce of the UNM School of Engineer- System Analyst. He is a retired of approximately 10,400 people ing (2009-1011) and as chair of Captain. After retirement from in the laboratory's component the Department of Civil Engineer- the USAF, he worked as a Senior technology directorates, including (2005-2009). He has served Systems Analyst with Titan Cor- ing the 711th Human Perfor- as an Air Force program manager poration and with Innovative mance Wing and the Air Force in the area of lightweight optical Research Corporation, 1986– Office of Scientific Research. M/ structures, including the devel- 1994. For most of 1997–2003 he Gen McCasland's experiences opment of mirrors to replace the was computer network adminis- spanned a wide range of space- Hubble Space Telescope. His re- trator for Hoffmantown Church. system related research, devel- search sponsored by LANL and Robert received the AIAA 2013 opment and operations roles in NRC has helped increase safety Sustained Service Award. the NRO and Air Force. He lead of nuclear power plants. His the initial technical baseline defi- Teaching interests include Struc- Dr. Neil McCasland — nition of the currently executing tural Design and Analysis and Corporate Liaison GPS-III program while serving as Materials. Research interests the Chief Engineer of the GPS encompass Sensors, Nondestruc- Neil is an Associate Fellow of the JPO; commanded the AFRL Space tive Evaluation, Advanced Mate- AIAA, and Senior Member of the Vehicle's directorate where he rials & Processing and Blast- IEEE and is currently the Director initiated what has now evolved resistant Design. of Technology at Applied Tech- into today's Operationally Re- nology Associates of Albuquer- sponsive Space program. As a Robert Malseed — Treasurer que NM. Prior to joining ATA, Dr. General Officer, he served7 as Robert is an Associate Fellow of McCasland served a 34 year ac- THE FLIGHT PLAN M A Y 2 0 1 8

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Vice Commander of the Ogden ties, and laser applications; sup- years’ experience, with a Mas- Air Logistics Center and the porting numerous projects and ter’s degree in Applied Physics Space and Missile Systems Cen- programs including the Airborne from the Air Force Institute of ter, and at the Pentagon led Air Laser and Advanced Tactical. Technology (WPAFB) and a Bach- Force Space acquisition policy Over the past 20 years he has elor’s degree in Physics from the and oversight on the Air Staff and filled various roles at AFRL in- Virginia Military Institute served as the Director of Special cluded Senior Research Engineer, (Lexington, VA). Programs and Low Observables Branch Technical Advisor and Elfego Pinon III— STEM K-12 as a member of the OSD staff. Dr. Branch Chief. Dr. Morley is a McCasland holds a PhD and MS member of the Directed Energy Elfego is a Senior Member of in estimation and controls from Professional Society and SPIE. AIAA and is our incumbent STEM MIT's Department of Aeronautics K-12 Outreach officer. He is a and Astronautics. He earned his Erin Pettyjohn — Membership graduate of The University of BS in Astronautical Engineering Erin is a Member of AIAA and is a Texas at Austin where he re- at the USAF Academy. Senior Research Physicist at the ceived his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. Dr. Nicholas (Nick) Morley — Air Force Research Labs, Space degrees in aerospace engineer- Vice Chair Vehicles Directorate. Her respon- ing. During his career he has had sibilities include day to day man- the chance to teach orbital me- Nick is a Senior Member of the agement as deputy chief of the chanics and other subjects at the AIAA and currently the Branch Battlespace Surveillance Innova- university level, work with the Technical Advisor at the Air Force tion Branch. She led the team navigation team to support the Research Laboratory’s Laser Ap- that designed the first vendor- Magellan mission to Venus at the plication Branch. He completed independent cryocooler control Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and his B.S, M.S, & PhD in Nuclear electronics for space applica- perform GPS/INS analysis for Engineering from the University tions. The team included Iris Shuttle and ISS missions at of New Mexico, in 1988, 1991, & Technology, Northrop Grumman, NASA's Johnson Space Center. 1993, respectively. He has Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Ri- While working at Boeing, he led worked at AFRL since 1994, cor, AIM, NASA JPL, and AFRL. the Mission Design Team and where he investigated heat This significantly reduced the risk served as a Rendezvous Director transfer, fluid dynamics, laser to cost and schedule for ISR pay- for the Orbital Express satellite interaction with materials, opti- loads, and lowered the cost by servicing demonstration mission cal signatures, target vulnerabili- that was operated out of the ~90%. Ms. Pettyjohn has twelve 8 THE FLIGHT PLAN M A Y 2 0 1 8

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RDT&E Support Complex (RSC) at Illinois at Chicago in 2011. Her Stephen Seiffert — Honors and Kirtland AFB. He is now working graduate research experience is Awards as a Senior GN&C Engineer for with solid-state laser design and Stephen is an Associate Fellow of Emergent Space Technologies, high-resolution, low-aberration AIAA and has served as Section Inc. and recently served as the spectrometer construction. Dur- Chairman and Vice Chairman, Systems Engineering Lead for ing her graduate career she was and corporate liaison. He is our Emergent's support of the first author on 6 of her 8 refer- incumbent Honors and Awards DARPA System F6 program. At eed journal articles. After com- officer. He is now retired. Emergent, he has also supported pleting her degree she joined the other projects including rendez- Advanced Space-Based Imaging Dr. C.J. John Tam — Education vous and proximity operations Section at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). She is an Im- analysis for NASA's Project Orion, John is an Associate Fellow of aging Space Sensor Calibration trajectory analysis for asteroid AIAA and has been in AIAA since Physicist and Team Lead for the and orbital debris rendezvous 1989. He has more than 16 years Optical Characterization Labora- studies, and systems engineering of experience in Computational tory which characterizes electro- analysis for a proposed picosat Fluid Dynamics (CFD) develop- optical and infrared space-based rendezvous mission. As the STEM ment and applications. Since and airborne imaging technolo- K-12 Outreach Officer he has 1998, he had been involved in gies. During her tenure at AFRL helped organize and support the the development of scramjet she has evolved this laboratory AIAA Albuquerque Section's par- engines at the Air Force Re- to be the premier DOD lab for ticipation in many STEM out- search Laboratory/Aerospace characterizing Imaging Spectrom- reach activities including support Systems Directorate (AFRL/ eters and for supporting opera- for career fairs at the city/state RQHF) in WPAFB, OH. Currently, tional calibrations of sensors sen- and local school level and the Dr. Tam is working at the Air sitive in the wavelengths ranging annual Scientific Classroom Force Research Laboratory/ from 400nm – 2500nm. Dr. Equipment Grant (SCEG). Directed Energy Directorate Schieffer is actively involved in (AFRL/RDLEM) in Kirtland Air Brian Robbins—Young Profes- UNM mentoring program and Force Base, NM. His research sionals AFRL’s Summer Scholar program, emphasizes on the flow physics for which she received an out- around optical turrets using nu- Dr. Stephanie Schieffer— Chair standing scholar award in 2017. merical simulations. He has pub- Dr. Schieffer is the current chair- Stephanie received her Ph.D. in man of Albuquerque’s AIAA sec- Physics from the University of 9 tion. THE FLIGHT PLAN M A Y 2 0 1 8

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lished numerous papers, journal tems Group under the Space Ve- ics, rotorcraft aerodynamics, and articles and technical presenta- hicles Directorate. He is also a wind energy; ii) survivability of tions. He has served as a review- member of the Spacecraft Struc- networks with heterogeneous er for many technical journals. tures Technical Committee. Ben nodes, and iii) uncertainty analy- He taught undergraduate- and stays active in AIAA through par- sis. Dr. Poroseva came to UNM graduate- level classes in the De- ticipation in career mentoring, from the Center for Advanced partment of Mechanical and Ma- outreach events, and serving as Power Systems at Florida State terials Engineering at Wright last year's Communications University where she was the State University (WSU) in Day- Officer for AIAA ABQ. Ben also lead of the Simulation group. ton, OH since 2001, where he enjoys woodworking, hiking, Previously, she was also affiliated was an adjunct associate profes- walking his two dogs, and explor- with the School of Computation- sor. He was nominated for the ing New Mexico with his wife. al Science at FSU, Aerospace En- Excellence in Teaching Award for gineering Department at TAMU, Adjunct Faculty for the 2006- Dr. Svetlana Poroseva — Center for Turbulence Research 2007, 2009-2010, and 2010-2011 Student Branch Advisor at Stanford University, and the academic years at WSU. In addi- Institute of Theoretical and Ap- Svetlana is an Associate Fellow tion, he was inducted as an Emi- plied Mechanics, Siberian Branch of AIAA, is an Assistant Professor nent Engineer by Tau Beta Pi in of Russian Academy of Sciences. at the Mechanical Engineering 2010. Department of the University of New Mexico. She serves on the Ben Urioste — Communications AIAA Survivability and Non- Officer Deterministic Approaches Tech- Ben has a bachelor's degree in nical Committees. Her Ph.D. is in mechanical engineering from The Fluid and Plasma Mechanics from University of New Mexico and is Novosibirsk State University in currently pursuing his master's Russia. Dr. Poroseva specializes degree in mechanical engineer- in theoretical and computational ing. While at UNM Ben served as analysis of complex systems and Chair of the AIAA Student Section stochastic processes. Her current from 2016-2017. He currently research interests are i) modeling works at Air Force Research Labs and simulation of turbulent flows in the Integrated Structural Sys- with application to aerodynam- 10 THE FLIGHT PLAN M A Y 2 0 1 8

ASTRONAUT HARRISON S CHMITT EVENT SUMMARY By Mark Fraser—Public Policy Officer

I attended the Annual Sigma Xi - IEEE banquet on 14 May, in which the featured speaker was Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt. He lives in Albuquerque and I have met him several times. He was the first scientist- astronaut to fly in space (Ph.D. in Geology), is the most recent living person to have walked on the Moon, and is also the last living crew member of Apollo 17 (Commander Eugene Cernan, Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans, and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt). This was the last manned mission to the Moon in 1972.

Harrison Schmitt at the landing site Dr. Schmitt’s talk, titled "A Voy- brothers) to landing men on the age to the Moon on Saturn's ing a man on the Moon and re- Moon (1969, Apollo 11). Wings", covered the U.S. space turning him safely by the end of history leading up to his mission. the 1960s. After the USSR launched Sputnik Dr. Schmitt said that the last into orbit in 1957, Russia and the The motive was geopolitical with three Apollo missions (15, 16, & U.S. both developed space pro- military implications. We 17) were true exploration mis- grams to launch humans into launched John Glenn into orbit in sions, mainly because they each orbit (Vostok Programme, Pro- 1962, then after the Mercury had a Lunar Rover Vehicle. The ject Mercury). Russia beat the program (1-man spacecraft), we Apollo missions returned 850 U.S. when they launched Yuri developed the Gemini Program pounds of Moon rocks and soil, Gagarin into orbit in 1961. Then (2-man spacecraft to practice which is still providing research U.S. President John F. Kennedy orbital maneuvers), then the material for scientists. Analysis raised the stakes of the Space Apollo Program (3-man space- of zircon minerals have allowed Race by setting the goal of land- craft). Schmitt felt that we won a more accurate estimate of the the Space Race with Apollo 8, age of the Moon – 4.51 billion when we sent men around the years (link). Also, Schmitt and Moon and back in 1968. We others published an article in beat the Russians because of the 2017 in the planetary science Saturn V. journal Icarus, titled “Revisiting the field geology of Taurus– Littrow” (abstract), the landing Within the lifespan of a human site for Apollo 17. being, we went from the first Continued on next page... powered aircraft (1903, Wright 11 Harrison Schmitt collecting samples THE FLIGHT PLAN M A Y 2 0 1 8

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By Mark Fraser—Public Policy Officer

one of the standard talking points of climate deniers - that the computer models have er- rors. (Here is what the science says.) He may have a Ph.D. in geology, but he is not a climate scientist. He is a former director and frequent speaker at The Heartland Institute, which has been at the forefront of denying the scientific evidence for -man made climate change. Atmos- pheric physicist Mark Boslough pointed out that Schmitt had cherry-picked some sea ice data in a white paper on climate change (Ref 1, Ref 2).

Mark Fraser and Harrison Schmitt naissance Orbiter captured the I asked him how the Apollo land- sharpest images ever taken from ing sites were selected. He said space of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 the first two (11 & 12) were landing sites; he narrates one of picked for safety, then the rest the guided tours on the “Moon were for more scientific reasons, in Google Earth” interactive map; and the last site had a very com- and he is writing his personal plex geology. account of the Apollo 17 Mission, “Diary of the Twelfth Man”, on Here is a short summary of the his website. Apollo 17 on the launch pad mission from NASA, and here is an excellent BBC Timeline docu- Special note: I have great re- mentary, “The Apollo Experi- spect for Harrison Schmitt, who ence: Apollo 17” (Part 1, Part 2). is one of twelve men who have walked on the Moon, however Tidbits: He said that they trained he is a self-proclaimed climate for accelerations up to 12 ’g s, but denier (link). Although I have the Launch Escape System would met him several times, I have not be 16 g’s if they had to abort dur- asked him if his views have changed. Someone did bring up Apollo 17 landing site ing launch; NASA's Lunar Recon- 12 the topic and Schmitt fell back on THE FLIGHT PLAN M A Y 2 0 1 8

2018 AIAA REGION IV STUDENT CONFERENCE By Victoria Ramirez—Conference Chair

The 2018 Region IV Stu- dent Conference was a huge success with seven schools attend- ing from Texas, New Mexico, Ok- lahoma, and Chihuahua (Mexico). The University of New Mexico has received many com- pliments from the faculty and students who attended the conference, so in case you were una- ble to attend here is a brief summary of the event. The conference events were started by an inspiring presentation by Heather A. Taylor about her documentary Breaking Through the Clouds – The First Women’s National Air Derby. Here, Heather elaborated on how women overcame difficul- 13 ties to passionately fly above all THE FLIGHT PLAN M A Y 2 0 1 8

2018 AIAA REGION IV STUDENT CONFERENCE

By Victoria Ramirez—Conference Chair

expectations. The paper presen- las MacNinch, Shane Mckinney, Masters: tations were tremendous with a Daniel Pacheco, Michael Under- First Place— Comparison of Lin- tough competition between fas- wood, Arjun Tandon, and Andrei ear and Nonlinear Dynamics of a cinating topics. A special thank Zagrai Virtual Telescope you to all young professionals who volunteered to be on the The University of New Mexico panel on Friday afternoon. The Richard Adcock, Dr. Asal Naseri conference proceeded on Satur- day with a spectacular tour of Undergraduate: AFRL organized by Nicholas Mor- First Place— ley. Here, students had the op- Application of Computational portunity to learn, and ask ques- Intelligence for Command & tions about the various research Control of Unmanned Air Sys- being conducted at facilities tems Texas A&M University throughout the air force base. Second Place— Hannah C. Lehman, Prof. John The 2018 Region IV Student Con- Design, Fabrication, and Uni- Valasek ference Awards banquet was a formity Testing of a Versatile huge success with Terry Burress Low-Cost Student Wind Tunnel as the speaker. His talk was titled The University of Oklahoma Simulation Architectures in Sup- Samuel V. Jett, Karen Martinez port of F-35 Testing, where he Soto, and Orhan Roksa, Dr. elaborated on the work he con- Thomas C. Hays ducts at Lockheed Martin. The concluding event was announc- ing the winners of the paper presentation competition, and they are as follows. Second Place— Team: Characterization of a 50 kW In- ductively Coupled Plasma Torch for Testing of Ablative Thermal Protection Materials Using Non- Air Gases Third Place — The University of Texas at Austin Designing of a 2-kN Rocket Han A. Cha, Benton Greene Engine

Universidad Autonoma de Third Place— Chihuahua Luis R. Garcia- Preliminary Evaluation of En- Mendoza, Fidel Baez-Avila, Sam- hanced Vision Head Worn Dis- uel Anchondo-Rodriguez, Edu- First Place— play for FAR Part 23 Aircraft ardo Calva-Quintana, Eloy N. Payload Design and Develop- Texas A&M University Marquez-Gonzalez ment for Orbital Structural Alexandra Heinimann, Prof. John

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THIS MONTH IN AIR & SPACE HISTORY By Ben Urioste — Editor

85 Years Ago - 1933 May 14: The American Interplanetary Society successfully launched its Rocket No. 2 in Staten Island, N.Y. The rocket achieved a 250-ft altitude in only two seconds. 70 Years Ago - 1948 May 13: First Bumper Wac fired, first two stage rocket launched in western hemisphere. Rocket reached an altitude of 69.7 miles, officially into outer space. White Sands Proving Ground (WSPG), NM. 60 Years Ago - 1958 May 1: Existence of Van Allen radiation belts announced publicly, based on findings of Explorer (launched January 31, 1958). May 15: Sputnik 3 launched by Molniya rocket at 7:12 UTC, from Baikonur. Satellite was an orbiting geophysical observatory used to measure the pressure and composition of Earth's upper atmosphere. 55 Years Ago – 1963 May 3: First Project Apollo landing system drop test. Drop of boilerplate spacecraft was successful. May 7: Telstar 2 launched by Atlas Agena at 7:38 a.m., EDT from Cape Canaveral, Fla. Its primary function was as a communications satellite; however, it also carried an experiment to measure radiation from the Van Allen radiation belts. One of the first satel- lites to feature a “hitchhiker” experiment. May 15: Mercury/Atlas-9 (Faith 7) launched, manned by astronaut Leroy Gordon Cooper, at 8:04 a.m., EST from Cape Canaveral, Fla. First U.S. human space flight to remain in orbit for more than 24 hrs. First live television broadcast from a U.S. spacecraft. May 16: ESRO-2 (or 2B or IRIS) launched by Scout from Vandenberg AFB, CA at 6:09 p.m.PDT. Launched in cooperation with US Orbiting Solar Observatory (OSO) satellite series. 50 Years Ago – 1968 May 18: Nimbus B meteorological R and D satellite launch using a Thor-Agena from Vandenberg AFB, CA at 5 p.m. PDT. First NASA launch using long-tank Thor-Agena destroyed by range safety officer after rocket malfunction. May 23: Echo 1, the world’s first passive communications satellite, reenters Earth’s atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean. 45 Years Ago - 1973 May 14: Skylab 1 space station launched aboard the Saturn V at 1:30 p.m., EDT, from KSC. Micrometeor- oid shield tears during flight, damaging solar arrays and turning Skylab 2 into a repair mission. Last flight of a Saturn V launch vehicle. May 25: Skylab 2 mission launched aboard Saturn 1B at 9:00 a.m., EDT, from KSC. Crew: Charles Conrad, Jr., Paul J. Weitz, and Dr. Joseph P. Kerwin. Crew successfully frees a stuck solar array and put up a thermal shielding “parasol”. 40 Years Ago - 1978 May 20: Pioneer Venus launched by Atlas Centaur at 9:13 a.m., EDT, from Cape Canaveral, Fla. First spacecraft placed in orbit around Venus. May 29: President Carter signed NSC-37, a presidential directive that established a uni- fied national policy for all US military and civilian space programs. The directive sought to broaden the role of NASA and commercial space efforts. 35 Years Ago - 1983 May 18: Pioneer 9 sends its last signal. It was an interplanetary probe launched in November 1968 and designed to last six months, Pioneer 9 returned data for fifteen years. May 19: Intelsat V F-6 launched by Atlas Centaur, 6:26 p.m., EDT, Cape Canaveral, Fla. This was the 100th launch managed by engineers from NASA’s Glenn Research Center (then NASA Lewis). 30 Years Ago – 1988 May 23: NASA awards the US government’s first contract for end-to-end commercial launch services. Com- pany would be responsible for every stage of the process from management and design to operations. 25 Years Ago – 1993 May 25: NASA's Magellan becomes the first orbiting planetary spacecraft to use aerobraking to change its orbit. During this 70-day maneuver, the spacecraft was positioned so that atmospheric drag would slow the spacecraft and change its orbit around Venus from elliptical to circular. Aerobraking thus saved precious maneuvering fuel for Magellan. 20 Years Ago – 1998 May 13: Launch of NOAA-15 (K) by a Titan 2 rocket from Vandenberg AFB, CA at 15:52:04 UTC. May 28: The Hubble Space Telescope photographs the mysterious object TMR-1C, possibly a protoplanet. Later observations reveal it to be a very young star. 15 Years Ago – 2003 May 9: Muses-C, renamed Hayabusa (meaning Falcon) after the launch, launched by an M-5 rocket from Uchinoura Space Center, Japan at 4:29 UTC. The primary scientific objective of the Hayabusa mission is to collect a surface sample of material from the small asteroid 25143 Itokawa (1998 SF36) and return the sample to Earth for analysis. 10 Years Ago – 2008 May 31: STS-124 (Space Shuttle Discovery) Launched at 5:02 p.m. EDT, from KSC. Crew: Mark E. Kelly; Ken- neth T. Ham; Karen L. Nyberg; Ronald J. Garan; Michael E. Fossum; Akihiko Hoshide (Japan); Gregory E. Chamitoff; and Garrett E. Reisman. The crew installed the Japanese Logistics Module (JLM), the second segment of the Japanese research laboratory (Kibo). Landing: June 14, 11:15 a.m. EDT, KSC. Mission Duration: 13 days, 18 hours, 13 minutes. 16 THE FLIGHT PLAN M A Y 2 0 1 8

PHOTO OF THE MONTH

TESS Images Centaurus Constellation NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) took this image of the Centaurus constellation using a two- second exposure. The image was taken as the spacecraft was completing a flyby of the Moon on its way to its final science orbit high above Earth. Read more here.

Photo Credit: NASA/MIT/TESS

PARTING THOUGHTS

In a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry these measure- ments to another place of decimals. —James C. Maxwell, 1831-1879

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