Prof. Nayfeh is a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Society of Design and Process Science, and the American Academy of Mechanics (AAM).
On the other hand, the question of spaceflight puzzled the literary imaginations of such figures as Jules Verne and H. G. Wells.
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In fact this equation was derived earlier by William Moore, a British mathematician who worked at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich.
Ashley served as president of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).
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He is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the World Innovation Foundation, the International Association of Computational Mechanics, the US Association of Computational Mechanics, and the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
Dr. Lathan received her B.A. in Biopsychology and Mathematics fromSwarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania and an S.M. in Aeronautics and Astronautics and Ph.D. in Neuroscience from MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
In the novel 3001: The Final Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke tells us that Frank Poole's boyhood hometown was Flagstaff, Arizona, and that his visits to the Lowell Observatory there had sparked his interest in astronautics.
Dr. G. Madhavan Nair, the chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation was elected as the new president of the International Academy of Astronautics in August 2009.
Yuri Kondratyuk (1897–1942), Ukrainian scientist and pioneer of astronautics and spaceflight
In 1960, Kline and Manfred Clynes coined the term cyborg, using it in an article in Astronautics Magazine about the advantages of self-regulating human-machine systems in outer space.
Herman Potočnik, Slovene rocket engineer and pioneer of astronautics
Since 2003, he has been a full professor at the Technische Universität München (Munich, Germany), holding the chair of the Institute of Astronautics (space technology) at the University's faculty of mechanical engineering.