Goldsmith was also a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Rocket Society, the Institution of Radio Engineers, Australia, the International College of Surgeons, the New York Academy of Sciences, the Optical Society of America, and was a Benjamin Franklin Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (London).
In early 1963 the ARS merged with the Institute of the Aerospace Sciences to become the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).
Grosch served as editor of the journal Computerworld from 1973 to 1976, and he was the president of the American Rocket Society (which became the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) and the Association for Computing Machinery from 1976 to 1978.
In the early 1950s, the American Rocket Society set up an ad hoc Committee on Space Flight, of which Rosen became the chair.
At a 1954 meeting of the Spaceflight Committee of the American Rocket Society, von Braun proposed placing a satellite into orbit using the Redstone with clusters of small solid-fuel rockets on top.
American | American Civil War | American Broadcasting Company | American football | African American | American Idol | American Revolutionary War | American Revolution | Society of Jesus | Royal Society | American Association for the Advancement of Science | American Red Cross | National Geographic Society | American Library Association | American Museum of Natural History | American Express | American Academy of Arts and Sciences | American League | American Association | American Heart Association | American comic book | American Institute of Architects | American Airlines | American Hockey League | Spanish-American War | Pan American Games | American Cancer Society | Whitney Museum of American Art | American Ballet Theatre | American Legion |
Though test flights are recorded from 1933 forward, the group would rename themselves the American Rocket Society and continue experimentation in the relatively populous area of Staten Island until incorporating Reaction Motors, Inc. under Lovell Lawrence in 1938 in pursuit of a war-time contract from the United States Navy.