Meet The Crew
The AIAA History Committee has elected positions including Chair, Vice Chair, Secretary, and Subcommittee positions such as Communications, Awards, Historic Sites, Events, Membership and more. Chair and subcommittee assignments are usually for one year terms although members can vote individuals in for multiple years.
Nominate New Members
Nominations are accepted throughout the year, but the deadline for consideration is October 31st, with the new Committee Rosters announced the following Spring. Each candidate may have to have their employer approve and support travel to two meetings per year.
Walter Gordon (elected officer)
Chairman of the Niagara Frontier section of AIAA
Active Committee Member List
Jorge M M Barata, AIAA Associate Fellow
jmmbarata@gmail.com
Matt Bille, AIAA Fellow
Aiden Bramer, AIAA Communications Committee Member
Kevin Burns, IOD Committee, AIAA Associate Fellow
Tom D. Crouch, Ph.D, Chair, Gardner-Lasser Literary Award; History Manuscript Award
tdc2281944@yahoo.com (home)
croucht@si.edu (work)
Benjamin G. Davis, Ph.D., LL.M., AIAA Reinventing Space
Joao Melo De Sousa, AIAA Member
Antonio di Biase, AIAA Member
Daniel N. Donahoe, Senior Member
Nathan (Sam) Dougherty, AIAA Associate Fellow
Louis Edelman, AIAA Member
Craig F. Eckersley, Member of the AIAA International Subcommittee, Senior Lifetime AIAA Member
Gary Fogel, Ph.D. Associate Fellow of the AIAA
Alice Gorman, AIAA Member
Richard P Hallion, Ph.D., AIAA Fellow and Past Chair - History Committee
Tucker Hamilton, AIAA Member
Peter Hartwich, AIAA Member
Jeffrey Jepson, AIAA Member
Angie Lander, AIAA Member
Roger Launius, AIAA Fellow, Gardner-Lasser Literary Award; History Manuscript Award
Michael G. Lavelle, AIAA Associate Fellow
David Loda, AIAA Senior Member, Systems Engineering TC, Digital Engineering Integration Committee
Becca Lublin, AIAA Member
Michael J. Mackowski, Associate Fellow of AIAA, AIAA Chair Children’s Literature Award
Cam Martin, AIAA Member
Fernando M S P Neves, Senior Member AIAA
David Newell, AIAA Member
Markus Raffel, AIAA Associate Fellow, Historic Aerospace Sites Committee,
Sofia Russi, AIAA Member, IOD
Timothy Takahashi, AIAA Associate Fellow
Rachel Tillman, AIAA Associate Fellow, Chair AIAA History Committee Communications
rachel@thevikingpreservationproject.org
Peter Westwick, AIAA Member
Subcommittee Groups
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Membership: John Blanton - Chair
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Conferences and Sessions: Walter Gordon - Chair
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Communications & Publications, Rachel Tillman - Chair, Gary Fogel
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Centennial Committee: Walter Gordon - Chair
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Historic Sites Committee: Walter Gordon - Chair
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Honors and Awards: Deborah Douglas
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Gardner-Lasser Book Award: Deborah Douglas
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Manuscript Award: Deborah Douglas
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Childrens Literature: Deborah Douglas
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Aeromodeling Subcommittee: Gary Fogel – Chair, Mike Mackowski, Claire Aldenhuysen
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International Subcommittee: Fernando Neves – Chair, Craig Eckersley, Jorge Barata, Joao Melo De Sousa, Antonio di Biase
