You’re invited to join AIAA Atlanta on Thursday, September 15, 2022, to hear Dr. Sandy Magnus speak about her missions as a NASA astronaut on the Space Shuttle, current status of human space flight and what it might mean for future careers. Hopefully, the SLS will have launched by then on the Artemis I mission and we will have much about which to talk!
Location: We’ll be dining at Red Lobster restaurant, 2579 Cobb Pkwy SE, Smyrna, GA 30080.
Cost: $12 for students, $17 for AIAA Members, $22 for non-Members
Time: 5:30 p.m. Social/networking hour, 6:30 dinner, 7:30 announcements followed by presentation
Register: Click here
Menu: Abbreviated Red Lobster menu TBD. When you register, please indicate your menu choice. Alcoholic beverages are not included in cost.
To attend the meeting and presentation is free. You only pay for any food & beverages that you consume.
Dr. Sandra H. “Sandy” Magnus, is the Principal at AstroPlanetview, LLC and a part time Professor of the
Practice at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Prior to joining Ga Tech she was the Deputy Director of
Engineering in the Office of the Secretary of Defense Research and Engineering. She also served as the
Executive Director of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the world’s largest
technical society dedicated to the global aerospace profession for five and a half years.
Selected to the NASA Astronaut Corps in April, 1996, Dr. Magnus flew in space on the STS-112 shuttle mission in 2002,
and on the final shuttle flight, STS-135, in 2011. In addition, she flew to the International Space Station on
STS-126 in November 2008, served as flight engineer and science officer on Expedition 18, and returned
home on STS-119 after four and a half months on board. Following her assignment on Station, she
served at NASA Headquarters in the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate. Her last duty at NASA,
after STS-135, was as the deputy chief of the Astronaut Office. Before joining NASA, Dr. Magnus worked
for McDonnell Douglas Aircraft Company from 1986 to 1991, as a stealth engineer. While at McDonnell
Douglas, she worked on internal research and development and on the Navy’s A-12 Attack Aircraft
program, studying the effectiveness of radar signature reduction techniques.