Event Calendar

Tickets: (No Refund within 7 days before the event. No Refund during or after the event.)

  $5 Presentation Only -No Lunch

$23 AIAA Student / Educator Member Price (w/ Lunch)

$28 Non-AIAA Member -Student / Educator (w/ Lunch)

$27 AIAA Professional Member Price (w/ Lunch)

$32 Non-AIAA Member -Professional Price (w/ Lunch)

$24 AIAA Life-Time Member or Emeritus Member (w/ Lunch)

$24 AIAA Member with 20 or more years of membership (w/ Lunch)

Michelle Evans is the founder of Mach 25 Media (www.Mach25Media.com) and is a writer, photographer, and communications specialist in aerospace. She has written the bestselling book “The X-15 Rocket Plane, Flying the First Wings into Space” which was published by the University of Nebraska Press as part of their “Outward Odyssey, People's History of Spaceflight” series. Michelle's background in aerospace engineering includes serving in the US Air Force working on missile systems, and later in private industry accomplishing environmental testing for systems used in airliners and spacecraft. Her current work primarily involves exciting audiences about space exploration by speaking of the X-15 and other areas of the space program at venues across the country, as well as overseas. Michelle is a Distinguished Speaker with the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and her book on the X-15 was a finalist for the Eugene M. Emme Award for Astronautical Literature. Michelle received the Diverse Community Leader Award from Orange County Human Relations, and was recognized as number 3 on the Orange County Register’s list of the 100 Most Influential People in Orange County. She has appeared in numerous publications, including Air & Space Smithsonian, Ad Astra, Orange County Register, Los Angeles Times, and the New York Times. Michelle had feature stories about her life in both Time and Newsweek magazines. She was a technical consultant on the Neil Armstrong biopic “First Man,” and has consulted with National Geographic television for “The Real Right Stuff.”