Robert Mccall, Artist, 1919-2010 a Bright Future for People in Space
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Volume 36, Issue was 1 AIAA Houston Section www.aiaa-houston.org May 2011 HubbleRobert Revisited McCall, on NASA’s Artist, 50th1919 -Anniversary2010 A Bright Future for People in Space Who’s who in the 1979 mural at NASA/JSC AIAA Houston Horizons May 2011 Page 1 May 2011 T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S From the Chair 3 HOUSTON From the Editor 4 Horizons is a quarterly publication of the Houston section From the Assistant Editor 6 of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Press Release: Virgin Galactic 7 Douglas Yazell Editor Feature: Robert McCall: Who’s Who in the NASA/JSC Mural 8 16 Past Editors: Jon Berndt & Dr. Steven Everett Feature: EAA/AIAA Profile: Lance Borden Assistant Editor: Robert Beremand The 1940 Air Terminal Museum at Hobby Airport 34 Editing staff: Don Kulba Contributors: Ellen Gillespie, Lance Borden, Dr. Steven Dinner Meetings (2): Accidents Happen, Congressman Pete Olson 37 Everett, Alan Simon, Don Kulba, Daniel Adamo Captain Andrew Hobokan: Apollo Lunar Module Testing 44 AIAA Houston Section Executive Council Event Report: Wings Over Houston Airshow 2010 47 Sarah Shull Private Space Flights: A New Era, 3AF TMP, our French Sister Section 49 From Aerospace America: A Boost For Commercial Human Spaceflight 53 Sean Carter Irene Chan Chair-Elect Secretary Staying Informed & Section News 57 Ellen Gillespie John Kostrzewski Calendar 61 Past Chair Treasurer Upcoming Event: Annual Technical Symposium, Friday, May 20, 2011 62 Dr. Larry Friesen Satya Pilla Co-located with Engineers as Educators Vice-Chair, Operations Vice-Chair, Technical Cranium Cruncher 63 Operations Technical Dr. Gary Turner Dr. Albert A. Jackson The Environmental Impact of Future Suborbital Vehicles of Space 65 Lisa Voiles Dr. Zafar Taqvi Tourism: 3AF TMP, Our French Sister Section Svetlana Hanson William West Dr. Benjamin Longmier Dr. Steven E. Everett The Back Cover: 1964 Portrait of NASA Hal Beck Group in Houston 66 Joel Henry Chester Vaughan Douglas Yazell Dr. Kamlesh Lulla Horizons and AIAA Houston Web Site Melissa Gordon BeBe Kelly-Serrato AIAA National Communications Award Winner Angela Beck Bill Atwell Rafael Munoz Sheikh Ahsan Mathew Easterly Paul Nielsen Gary Cowan Gary Brown Michael Frostad Ludmila Dmitriev Councilors Mike Lammers 2005 2006 2007 Shirley Brandt This newsletter is created by members of the Houston section. Opinions expressed herein other than Sarah Barr by elected Houston section officers belong solely to the authors and do not necessarily represent the Daniel Nobles position of AIAA or the Houston section. Unless explicitly stated, in no way are the comments of Donald Barker individual contributors to Horizons to be construed as necessarily the opinion or position of AIAA, Julie Read NASA, its contractors, or any other organization. All articles in Horizons, unless otherwise noted, Holly Feldman are the property of the individual contributors. Reproduction/republishing in any form except lim- Gabe Garrett ited excerpts with attribution to the source, will require the express approval of the individual au- thors. Please address all newsletter correspondence to [email protected]. More information at http://www.aiaa-houston.org/orgchart Cover: Robert McCall, artist, and his 1979 mural (signed by Robert McCall and Louise McCall) at NASA/JSC Building 2 Teague Auditorium. Credits: NASA AIAA Houston Horizons May 2011 Page 2 Page 3 Plans, Recent Successes, and New Opportunities From the Chair SARAH SHULL The 2010-11 year marks us at our annual outing to the the teacher they are paired the 49th year for the Houston Wings Over Houston Airshow. with and once per year visit Section of AIAA and as you This year, as we did last year, that educator and his/her stu- know we have a busy year we partnered with Col- dents in person. Once we get underway. The AIAA year lectSPACE and EAA to have a the logistics of this initiative started out strong with our display table at the Airshow on worked out, expect a call for executive council retreat in Saturday, October 23rd. volunteers via e-mail. mid-August. At this annual half-day meeting, your Hou- Other events held this fall If you are interested in ston Section officers set goals and winter included the contin- getting more involved with the for the coming year and began uation of the Space Center Lec- Houston Section of AIAA, to plan out a variety of activi- ture Series (http:// don‘t hesitate to contact me at ties for the coming year. As www.spacecenterlectureseries. [email protected]. We Section Chair my main goal com) , our second annual out- often have openings on our for the year is to help you, our ing to the George Observatory section executive council that section membership, to realize for an evening of star gazing, we are looking to fill. the value of AIAA member- the annual Yuri‘s Night cele- ship in these uncertain times. brations and various Young Whatever the coming year Professional networking may bring, I hope that the events. Houston Section of AIAA continues to be valuable to the For the remainder of the members by offering network- year we are working hard on ing opportunities, interesting planning for our section‘s An- speakers, educational lunch-n- nual Technical Symposium on learns, technical symposiums May 20th, 2011 as well as our and occasions at which mem- awards dinner on June 21, bers can socialize with others 2011 with Distinguished Lec- in the aerospace industry. turer Robert Zimmerman. Keep an eye on your e-mail I hope that everyone who and the section website for was able to attend our very further details about these ex- successful dinner meetings in citing events; I hope to see you August and March enjoyed the there! moving live performances by Grammy Award Winning Art- One new initiative our ist John Jarvis and Grammy section hopes to implement this nominated Artist Lyd- year is the pairing of our edu- ia Salnikova as well as the cator associate members with update on aerospace related professional members. The happenings on the hill given Houston Section presently has by Congressman Pete Olson over 100 educator associates and update on the State of JSC (K-12 teachers) who are large- given by Director Coats. The ly disconnected from our pro- ―August is for Aerospace‖ and fessional members. It is our ―State of the Center‖ events hope to better serve these edu- are an annual tradition within cators, and by association the AIAA that the Houston Sec- students they inspire, by pair- tion enjoys participating in. ing each one with a profession- During the month of October, al member who can serve as we hope you were able to join an e-mail mentor/resource to AIAA Houston Horizons May 2011 Page 3 Page 4 From the Editor A Newsletter ReBoot DOUGLAS YAZELL Welcome to Horizons for Borden. Lance kindly al- James A. Baker III Institute April 2011, my first issue as lowed us to use quite a few for Public Policy. Three or editor, a role I started on images from his collection four panelists discuss space Monday, April 11, 2011. for the first time, telling a shuttle history and making With help from quite a few story of aviation in his family the space shuttle program a people, we can continue this since 1929. These images commercial venture. The great newsletter tradition. For will be used one day in a panel‘s moderator is Mr. about 15 issues ending in late book he is writing. The other George Abbey, a former 2007, Jon Berndt served as feature article is a tribute to NASA/JSC Center Director. editor and made Horizons the late space artist Robert Robert F. Thompson gets great in surprising ways. I McCall. He was prolific and quite a few respectful rounds then served as acting editor influential. He left an inspir- of laughter during his unor- for three issues, followed by ing legacy few can match. thodox presentation, a lecture Dr. Steven E. Everett who We found a Houston connec- that I find educational. The served as editor for two years tion for this article: who‘s web page address for this and seven issues. Horizons who in the mural he painted video is http:// averages about 6,000 hits per in 1979 at JSC. bakerinstitute.org/events/u.s.- issue. Our section has about human-spaceflight-continuity 1,100 members. AIAA has 90 Robert Pearlman of Col- -and-stability. corporate members over lectSpace.com explains in his 35,000 members. public lectures that collecting Our back cover contains a space memorabilia and arti- 1964 NASA group portrait of We apologize for our tar- facts in private collections is some Space Task Group diness with this quarterly very important to our com- members in Houston. Our issue. Its publication online munities around the world, section‘s web site contains a was aimed at September 30, since many such items are page for Chester Vaughan‘s 2010, and will more likely be owned legally, morally, and history technical committee. a few days after April 30, ethically, but are not appro- That web page already shows 2011. We will aim for our priate for museums. I pur- the results of some good next quarterly issue to be chased a space souvenir from work, including documents online by June 30, 2011, as in a coin store on Bay Area which will help with our sec- past years. We are returning Boulevard last year. It‘s a tion‘s celebration of our 50th to our quarterly schedule. If 1975 medallion celebrating anniversary in 2012. The possible, we will change that the first American space- photo on this issue‘s back to a bimonthly schedule.