OCTOBER 2017 VOL. XLVI, No. 4 Published by and for the AIAA Long Island Section, Note from the Chairman P.O. Box 491, Bethpage, NY 11714 OFFICERS: I just renewed my AIAA membership. Has yours Chairman: Dave Paris (516) 458-8593 [email protected] expired? You can renew at the AIAA website. Log in Vice-Chair: Greg Homatas (718) 812-2727 [email protected] Secretary: Nick DiZinno (631) 252-3440 [email protected] and go to https://www.aiaa.org/MyMembership/. When Treasurer: W. Glenn Mackey (631) 368-0433 [email protected] you renew, please consider making a contribution to COUNCIL MEMBERS: the AIAA Foundation. For nearly 20 years, the AIAA Anthony Agnone, Joseph Fragola, Muhammad Hayan, Foundation has been focused on inspiring and Peter Kontogiannis, John Leylegian, Ron McCaffrey, rewarding the aerospace community’s future leaders. Emil Schoonejans, Jason Tyll, and Gerry Yurchison a Gifts from members enable the Foundation to ADVISOR: Dan Katzenstein FLIER EDITORS: contribute to the advancement of the aerospace Dave Paris, [email protected] profession by providing the funding necessary for W. Glenn Mackey, [email protected] programs that support students. FLIER PUBLISHER:
John Leylegian, (718) 862-7279, [email protected] SECTION WEBSITE: The Foundation has impacted countless students and https://info.aiaa.org/Regions/NE/Long_Island/default.aspx teachers through its programs which have: Webmaster: Nick DiZinno • Funded more than 1,300 K-12 classroom grants, EVENTS CALENDAR impacting over 132,000 students • Awarded more than 1,300 aerospace scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students October 18, “Apollo Lessons Learned,” Gerry • Supported more than 400 student conferences Sandler, at the Bethpage Library. Details on page 3. engaging more than 13,000 students with practical application skills October 19, 20, Sixth Annual International Energy & Sustainability Conference, Roosevelt Hall, Renewable • Sponsored design competitions that have engaged Energy and Sustainability Center at Farmingdale State more than 11,000 college students providing College. Student poster session on the 19th. Speakers unique opportunities to apply engineering skills and technical presentations on the 20th. For more • Enabled more than 140,000 student members and information and registration please visit: 9,000 Educator Associates to continue learning farmingdale.edu/resc about aerospace science and technology
November 15, ASME/ISA Meeting, The AIAA Foundation is a nonprofit, tax-exempt See page 4 for details. organization recognized under section 501(c)(3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code, Federal ID #54- November 17, Astronaut/Engineer Dr. Charles 1827596. Your gift is tax deductible. Camarda. At Hofstra. Details on page 3. AIAA strongly believes in the importance of our Please send any suggestions for meeting topics or educational programs and will match individual and speakers to: corporate donations up to $1 million dollars (of unrestricted funds). Dave Paris, 516-458-8593 [email protected]
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Joint AIAA/ASME/IEEE(AES)/IISE Section Meeting
Wednesday, October 18, 2017 Gerald Sandler
Northrop Grumman Corporate Vice President & President of Northrop Grumman Data Systems and Services Division, retired
“Apollo Lessons Learned”
Location: Bethpage Public Library RESERVATIONS REQUESTED 47 Powell Avenue RSVP BY Oct. 17, 2017 Bethpage, NY 11714 to: [email protected] or 516-458-8593
Time: 6:00 PM Social Time Cost for Pizza: $5, Members and Guests 6:30 PM Pizza Free, for Students 7:00 PM Presentation
The Apollo Program progressed from the tragedy of Apollo 1, to the orbit of the Moon by Apollo 8, to the first landing by Apollo 11, to the first rover vehicle in Apollo 15. At each stage, valuable lessons were learned that contributed to crew safety and mission success. These lessons should be useful to NASA in planning a return to the moon and a mission to Mars. Gerry will discuss not only how these lessons will be useful in the design, test and operations of the future crewed missions, but also useful to the technical and programmatic organizations, management style and people to people interactions. He will also discuss the Grumman interface with NASA during the Apollo Program, how well the partnership worked uncovering and solving problems and how that was vital to program success. The Grumman engineers and their NASA counterparts were constantly challenging each other to test different design approaches and find the best solutions to the competing factors of performance, reliability and weight. The emphasis was on problem solving, not bureaucracy. During the missions, critical lessons about solving problems in real-time were critical to mission success. Gerry will describe Apollo Missions 11, 13 and 14 to illustrate these points. In addition, he will talk about the rocks, dust, and images the astronauts brought back from the moon. What did the samples teach us, and did they raise more questions than they answered?
Gerry Sandler started his career as a systems engineer at RCA working on the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System. He joined Grumman in 1963 and, during his career, held engineering management positions of increased responsibility. He was Apollo/Lunar Module Program Manager, Director of Software Systems, Deputy Manager of Aerospace Engineering, and President of Grumman Data Systems and Services Group. Upon the merger of Northrop and Grumman, he was named Corporate Vice President and President of the Data Systems and Services Division. He retired from that position in 1995. He has been an industry professor at Polytechnic University (now NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering) and Hofstra University’s Engineering Department and has given many lectures on aircraft design and system reliability. He is the author of System Reliability Engineering. Gerry earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at CUNY and graduated from the MIT masters-level senior management program.
Directions: The library is west of Route 135 in Bethpage. Take Route 135 to Exit 8, then West on Powell Ave. for about 0.25 miles. The library is on the south side of the street. Park across Powell Ave., opposite the library.
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AIAA/IEEE(AES) Joint Section Meeting
Friday, November 17, 2017 Dr. Charles Camarda
NASA Astronaut, retired & Sr. Advisor for Innovation, Office of Chief Engineer, NASA
Presentation details pending
Location: Breslin Hall, First Floor, Room 103 RESERVATIONS REQUESTED Hofstra University South Campus RSVP BY Nov. 16, 2017 to: [email protected] Hempstead, NY 11549 or 516-458-8593
Time: 6:00 PM Social Time Cost for Pizza: $7 Members and Guests 6:30 PM Pizza Free, for Students 7:00 PM Presentation
Dr. Charles Camarda was born in Queens, and received his undergraduate degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. Upon graduation, he began work at NASA’s Langley Research Center (LaRC), received his M.S. from George Washington University in Mechanical Engineering and a Doctorate in Aerospace Engineering from VPI. He was Head of the Thermal Structures Branch at LaRC in 1996 when he was selected to be an Astronaut. He flew on the return-to-flight mission of Space Shuttle Discovery, STS-114, in 2005 as a mission specialist. He has served as Director of Engineering at the Johnson Space Center (JSC), Deputy Director for Advanced Projects for NASA’s Engineering and Safety Center (NESC), and is currently Senior Advisor for Innovation, Office of Chief Engineer, NASA headquarters. He has received over 21 NASA awards for technical innovations and accomplishments. He holds seven patents. Charlie is an AIAA Associate Fellow and was inducted into the Cradle of Aviation Hall of Fame this year.
Directions: Breslin Hall is on the South Campus of Hofstra University in Hempstead. Take Meadowbrook Parkway Exit M4, west onto Hempstead Turnpike (Route 24). After about 1 mile, turn left onto California Ave. opposite the North Campus entrance. After ¼ mile, turn right into parking lot. Breslin Hall is 0.1 mile ahead, the last building on the right. For directions and campus map: http://www.hofstra.edu/directions
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FLIER 4 OCTOBER 2017 Guidance, Navigation, and Control Undergraduate Conference Experience 2018 SciTech Forum January 8-12th, 2018 Kissimmee, Florida
The AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) technical committee is pleased to invite applications from motivated undergraduate students interested in learning about and networking with the Aerospace GNC research community at the 2018 AIAA SciTech Forum. This two-day event during SciTech pairs GNC community mentors with students to introduce them to the conference events, including technical sessions, graduate student opportunities, and young professional activities. The goal of the program is to provide motivated students insights into the GNC research community, career guidance, and networking opportunities with both young and experienced professionals in academia, industry and the government.
In addition to mentor guidance and focused student events, selected students will be provided:
• A maximum of $400 (or depending on availability of funds) for travel to SciTech • Hotel Accommodations at or near conference venue for two nights • SciTech Forum Registration
Eligibility and Requirements: Each applicant
• Must be interested in GNC research areas/technical topics • Must be enrolled in an ABET-accredited U.S. engineering school o Applications from students at universities outside of the U.S. are also eligible • Must have junior or senior standing for the 2017-2018 academic year • Be an AIAA student member • Must submit a completed application including a one-page resume and a transcript by 3 November 2017
For further details and an application, please contact Joseph.W.Connolly@nasa.gov
For information about SciTech, go to: http://scitech.aiaa.org/
A detailed list of example GNC research areas is outlined in the 2018 GNC Conference Call for Papers, available at http://www.aiaa-scitech.org/CallForPapers/#Guidance_Navigation_and_Control under Additional Details.
Application Procedure: To apply, each applicant must submit the application form (available from [email protected]), along with a one-page resume, and a transcript as a single pdf file named “your last name_your first name#GNC-UCE-2018.pdf” via email with the subject line “GNC2018 Undergraduate Conference Experience” by 3 November 2017 to:
Joseph Connolly NASA Glenn Research Center E-mail: [email protected] Ph. (216) 433-8728 Fax. (216) 433-8990
FLIER 5 OCTOBER 2017 SEPTEMBER MEETING REPORT
At the September 14 AIAA section meeting held at the Bethpage Public Library, retired Grumman Project Manager and AIAA Long Island Council member Ronald McCaffrey made a presentation about the “Soviet & United States Space Shuttle Programs.” Ron began with some background about the programs. US Space Shuttle reusable vehicles were designed to replace all expendable launch vehicles being used for launch of US civil, commercial, and military spacecraft. In the early 1970's, the USAF began converting the old Titan III launch complex, SLC-6 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, to support classified military space missions. The first Space Shuttle launch from Vandenberg was scheduled for 1986, but after the Challenger disaster, this facility was placed in hibernation and eventually closed. The USSR viewed America's reusable launch system as a military threat and proceeded to develop their own Buran Energia Space Shuttle concept in an attempt to attain strategic parity with the US. Because the Energia booster rocket and Buran spacecraft factories were located near Moscow, 2100 km from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, major components were flown to Baikonur for final assembly on a 4-engine VM-T Atlant aircraft. Three Burans were planned. The Buran only flew in space once, in 1988, and the program was cancelled in 1993, after the Soviet Union dissolved. The Buran was designed for 100 missions and the Energia with six strap-on boosters was capable of lifting 140 tonnes into low Earth orbit. The Buran Capabilities were similar to the US Space Shuttle Orbiter. It carried a crew of 2 pilots, 2 engineers and up to 6 passengers. It could dock with the Mir space station.
In May 1990, during Mikhail Gorbachev's Glasnost, the Soviet Union invited 12 members of the AIAA Space Systems Technical Committee and 4 members of the Planetary Society to visit the Institute of Space Research (IKI) to discuss the Soviet Manned Space Program. Ron and a few of the engineers from other aerospace companies were then working on Space Station Freedom. While in Moscow, they visited IKI, the Mir Flight Control Centre, the Star City Mir Training Mockup, and the Institute for Bio-Med Problems. They also visited the Baikonur lunch facility VM-T Atlant aircraft where they toured the Buran-Energia complex, Soyuz and Progress spacecraft areas, and the Proton test and launch facilities. They received briefings and were allowed to take pictures.
Conversations with Soviet Space Program Leadership were remarkably revealing about Soviet programs. Vladimir Pivnyk, Chairman of the Space Committee in Gorbachev’s Council of Ministers, spoke to the visitors about future space program cooperation between Russia and the US. His goals were to establish cooperation at all levels of government, establish an equal partnership, participate in Space Station Freedom (why not use Buran?), explore opportunities for joint Mars missions and Buran riding on cooperative commercial business. He described how the Soviet “Buran” was not a Antonov An-225 copy of the US Shuttle design but was in fact designed to meet specific Soviet Mriya requirements, such as the ability to land at the launch site and dock with Mir. He said the Soviets had devoted a lot of effort toward developing the Buran and Energia launch system and declared that their system is available to be used in support of the US Space Station Program. He said the visitors were brought to Baikonur specifically to see their Buran and Energia Assembly facilities.
Ron concluded with a discussion of Soviet space program legacies. The most significant are the use of Russian Energia RD-170 engines by the Sea Launch Zenit rocket, the derivative RD-180 engines that power the Atlas V launch vehicle, and cooperation between Russia and the US. Cooperation involved: shared Bio-Med Data and Flight hardware; astronaut training at Star City and Houston; and the replacement of US Space Station Freedom by the International Space Station (ISS) to accommodate Russia’s space US and Soviet launch capabilities and Russian ISS modules. Shuttles Compareda
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SEPTEMBER ETHICS SEMINAR REPORT
The Engineers Joint Committee of Long Island sponsored this year’s Ethics Seminar, “Ethical Issues – What Would You Do?” on September 19 at the Hilton Garden Inn in Melville. After dinner, the speaker, professional engineer Robin A. Kemper, introduced the subject of engineering ethics by asking a series of questions and discussing the Code of Ethics used by professional engineering societies and the National Institute for Engineering Ethics. She showed a video, “Henry’s Daughters” and then split the attendees into groups to consider the issues raised by the dramatization from the viewpoint of the people in the video. The engineers involved faced a complex situation with difficult choices. The discussion that followed dealt with conflicts of interest, sexual harassment, family relationships, and nepotism. For example, what are the limits on discussions between siblings when they work for organizations on opposite sides of a professional relationship? There was consensus on some of the issues with others left as areas for further thought.
For a more detailed review of the meeting, see Scott Damiani’s report that appeared in the IISE October Newsletter: http://files.constantcontact.com/95c44bc6601/5a466e60-6513-402b-b4c5-719e46a911bc.pdf
Usually Open Thursday to Sunday 10:30 AM to 5:00 PM Closed Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
American Airpower Museum Check website for weekend events. 1230 New Highway, Farmingdale, New York, http://americanairpowermuseum.com/ 11735 At the northeast corner of Republic Airport
Charles Lindbergh Boulevard Garden City, NY 11530
Visit the Cradle with your children and grandchildren, explore their world-class aerospace history exhibits, talk to their knowledgeable docents, join in their events, watch a first run movie in their wide screen domed theatre, or enjoy an exciting show in the immersive, all-digital, JetBlue Sky Theater Planetarium. The Cradle currently features planetarium and Domed Theatre shows including: Living in the Age of Airplanes; One World, One Sky: Big Bird's Adventure; Journey to Space; Lewis and Clark: Great Journey West. Also, check the website for dates and times for the Interactive Educator-Led Space Lab Programs: Current Night Sky; Space News & Asteroid: Mission Extreme.
Usual Hours: Open 9:30-5:00, Tuesday through Sunday and Mondays that fall on holidays and school breaks.
For event details, go to: http://www.cradleofaviation.org/ or call (516) 572-4111
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Free Preview Night for Educators Thursday, October 12, 2017 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm Educators are invited to come spend an evening at The Cradle of Aviation Museum!
Learn about the Cradle's education programs and field trips, preview our new Digistar 6 Portable Planetarium system, explore our galleries and see our dome theater film Asteroids: Mission Extreme. Educators will receive activities and lesson plan ideas that align with the film.
Plaza Theatrical Productions will be here to give you a sneak peek of Awesome Allie: First Kid Astronaut - your students will love this live musical theater production that includes audience participation coming to the Cradle this spring! Printed study and activity guides will be available.
This evening is FREE for Educators but reservations are required.
Please call Reservations at 516-572-4066 (Monday-Friday, 10-4) to reserve your spot! 15th Annual Air and Space Gala Thursday, November 16, 2017 6:00 pm
Honoring Alan Bean Apollo 12 Lunar Module Pilot Spirit of Discovery Award Daniel Kearns President, BH Aircraft Company, inc. Leroy R. Grumman Award Arthur J. Molins General Counsel the Americas, Lufthansa German Airlines Donald E. Axinn Community Service Award
6:00 PM – Cocktails, 7:30 PM – Dinner & Dancing Dress: Business Attire Tickets: $300 Per Person Proceeds from the Gala help to fund our Education Programs and Preservation efforts. More information visit http://www.cradleofaviation.org/gala Or, call Reservations Monday through Friday 10:00am-4:00pm at 516-572-4066. For other Gala details, please call Carol Nelson at 516-572-4026
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