AIAA Hosts Educational Event Honoring Apollo Anniversary Written 15 July 2019
15 July 2019
The Antelope Valley Press reports that the “NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center in California partnered with the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Antelope Valley chapter, to host an Apollo 50th anniversary event called ‘Small Steps to Giant Leaps’ on June 26 at Eastside High School.” The STEM-focused “family event featured Apollo-Soyuz astronaut Vance Brand, who was the keynote speaker. Brand also commanded three space shuttle missions, logged 746 hours in space and more than 9,669 hours as a pilot.” Larry Cliatt, a NASA engineer, “presented a talk on sonic booms, a very loud sound people hear on the ground when an aircraft is flying supersonically.” (Image: Apollo-Soyuz Astronaut Vance Brand. Credit: NASA | Wikipedia)
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The Antelope Valley Press reports that the “NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center in California partnered with the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Antelope Valley chapter, to host an Apollo 50th anniversary event called ‘Small Steps to Giant Leaps’ on June 26 at Eastside High School.” The STEM-focused “family event featured Apollo-Soyuz astronaut Vance Brand, who was the keynote speaker. Brand also commanded three space shuttle missions, logged 746 hours in space and more than 9,669 hours as a pilot.” Larry Cliatt, a NASA engineer, “presented a talk on sonic booms, a very loud sound people hear on the ground when an aircraft is flying supersonically.” (Image: Apollo-Soyuz Astronaut Vance Brand. Credit: NASA | Wikipedia)
Full Story (Antelop Valley (CA) Press)