Free Event hosted by the AIAA Houston Section History Technical Committee
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Bring your lunch (no charge) or order lunch for $15 using the above signup link no later than Wednesday, April 24 COB.
Meal Choices: Jason's Deli lunch & iced tea
- Deli Club Box (includes ham sandwich)
- Cali Club Box (includes turkey sandwich)
- Vegetarian Box
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Al Jackson will present, “The Interstellar Ramjet: A Technical History.”
Albert Allen Jackson IV entered the US civil service in January of 1966 as an engineer, first crew training on the Gemini Crew Trainer, then working on a simulator for the Lunar Landing Training Vehicle, and then becoming a full time Apollo crew trainer on the Lunar Module Simulator with the subsystem the Abort Guidance System.
"He returned to graduate work in physics in late 1970 gaining his Ph.D. in physics in January 1975 specializing in “applied” General Relativity. He returned to the Johnson Space Center working for McDonnell Douglas and Computer Science Corporation on flight planning software for the Space Shuttle Orbiter.
"In 1988 he moved to Lockheed Corporation working 5 years on solar system dust dynamics, and then 5 years on Orbital Debris. In 1998 he moved to Engineering Simulation and worked there for 12 years.
"He was a visiting scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston Texas for 30 years. Currently he is an astronautics consultant at Triton Systems LLC."
