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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Meeting Joint AIAA and ASME Dinner Meeting Thursday, October 10, 2013 “Curiosity…Year One - What’s been Discovered? What Adventures are Yet to Come?” Guest Speaker: Dr. Sarah Milkovich The Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida on November 26, 2011 and successfully landed at Gale Crater, Mars, on August 5, 2012, kicking off two amazing years of exploration of the crater floor and a mountain of layered rocks and sediment inside the crater. Curiosity was designed to assess if Mars was ever habitable. Did it ever have an environment able to support small life forms such as microbes? The record of the planet's climate is written in the rocks and soil - in their formation, structure, and chemical composition. Scientists are using the rover's onboard laboratory to study rocks, soils, and the local geologic setting (including samples scooped from the soil and drilled from rocks) to assess what the Martian environment was like in the past and to look for the chemical building blocks of life. Come join us as Dr. Sarah Milkovich leads us on an incredible scientific and engineering experience to find out what scientists have discovered in the first year of Curiosity’s mission and what fascinating adventures are yet to come! Dr. Sarah Milkovich is a planetary geologist and a systems engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Sarah works on spacecraft science operations, at the point where science and engineering meet. Sarah was the science operations systems engineer for Mars Science Laboratory (the Curiosity rover). She is currently the Investigation Scientist for the HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) camera on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, and a science systems engineer for the proposed Mars-2020 rover. Sarah has also worked on the science operations teams for the Mars Phoenix and Cassini spacecraft. Sarah received her B.S. in planetary science from the California Institute of Technology, and her M.S. and Ph.D. from Brown University in planetary geology. Location: Valley Inn Restaurant & Bar, Phone – 818-784-1163 Directions: 4557 Sherman Oaks Ave. From 405 Freeway - Southbound Sherman Oaks, CA 91403 Take EXIT 63A – Valley Vista Blvd / Sepulveda Blvd Turn Right on Fiume St. Schedule: Registration-Reception: 6:30 p.m. Fiume St becomes Sherman Oaks Avenue – Pass through Dinner: 7:00 p.m. one roundabout. Restaurant will be on your left. Presentations: 8:00 p.m. Dinner entrees choices: Chicken, Grilled Salmon, or Pasta (Select one at meeting) Dinner includes a salad, fruit sorbet and your choice of coffee or iced tea Cost: Students and New Members – Free / All others - $25 (Cash or Check at the door) Reservations: E-mail Lois Terada at [email protected] or phone Lois at 661-572-6473 RSVP by Monday, October 7, 2013 at 4:00 p.m. .

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