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The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is the scholarly society for the field of aerospace engineering. Founded in 1963, the AIAA succeeded two engineering societies: the American Interplanetary Society (AIS) later known as the American Rocket Society (ARS), founded in 1930, and the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences (IAS), founded in 1932.
The AIAA is the U.S. representative on the International Astronautical Federation and the International Council on the Aeronautical Sciences. As of 2004, the AIAA has more than 35,000 members. Despite its name, the society has members among aerospace professionals worldwide, although the majority are American and/or live in the United States. Some AIAA seminars and conventions are restricted to U.S. citizens, due to security issues.
AmericanInstitute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is the scholarly society for the field of aerospace engineering.
The AIAA is the U.S. representative on the International Astronautical Federation and the International Council on the Aeronautical Sciences.
AIAA Student Conference site All the conferences vary in character from one another, but essentially their purpose is to provide a forum for AIAA Student Members at colleges and universities within the region to present technical papers in public competition.
Founded in 1963, it merged two engineering societies – the American Interplanetary Society, later known as the American Rocket Society, which was founded in 1930, and the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences, founded in 1932.
One of the institute's primary responsibilities is "recognizing outstanding achievement" by conscientiously surveying the aerospace field to identify practitioners in its arts and sciences who have made notable and significant contributions.
Van Allen's instruments were aboard the first successful American satellites, Explorers 1 and 3, launched in 1958, and provided data for the first space-age scientific discovery: the existence of a doughnut-shaped region of charged particle radiation trapped by Earth's magnetic field now known as the Van Allen radiation belts.
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