When
Monday, December 12, 2022 from 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM PST
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This is a hybrid event, with in-person and online attendance.
***In-Person Location:
Manhattan Beach Library
1320 Highland Avenue
Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
(South of 105 Hwy and West of 405 Hwy/Pacific Coast Hwy (1))
(also online on Zoom for an hybrid event)
(This event is not sponsored by the Manhattan Beach Library)
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American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Los Angeles - Las Vegas Section949-426-8175
events.aiaalalv@gmail.com
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In-Person Attendance is better, and meet the speaker / attendees!
Online welcome. Please join us!
AIAA LA-LV 12/12 Section Special Meeting
(An AIAA LA-LV hybrid event: In-person and online on Zoom)
Monday, December 12, 2022, 3 PM PST / 6 PM EST
(Check-in starts 2 PM PST (GMT -0800) / 5 PM PST (GMT -0500))
DC-X/XA – The Genesis of
Fully Reusable Access to Space
speakers/panelists:
Dan Dumbacher
(Keynote speaker / Moderator)
(NASA interest in DC-X/XA and their linkage to SpaceX)
Executive Director
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
(Online/remote participation)
Jess Sponable
(Speaker / Panelist)
(DC-X Firsts)
President and Chief Technology Officer
New Frontier Aerospace (NFA), Inc.
(Online/remote participation)
Joaquin H. Castro
(Speaker / Panelist)
(Propulsion)
Aerojet Rocketdyne
Space Advanced Programs
(Online/remote participation)
James R. French
(Speaker / Panelist)
(Systems engineering and schedule)
AIAA Fellow (60+ year member of AIAA !)
President, JRF Aerospace Consulting LLC
(In-person participation)
Jeff Laube
(Speaker / Panelist)
Senior Project Leader
The Aerospace Corporation
Associate Fellow, AIAA
Chief Emeritus, Integration and Outreach Division, AIAA Council of Directors
(In-person participation)
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Monday, December 12, 2022, 3 PM PST / 6 PM EST
(Check-in starts 2 PM PST (GMT -0800) / 5 PM PST (GMT -0500))
DC-X/XA – The Genesis of
Fully Reusable Access to Space
speakers/panelists:
Dan Dumbacher
(Keynote speaker / Moderator)
(NASA interest in DC-X/XA and their linkage to SpaceX)
Executive Director
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
(Online/remote participation)
Jess Sponable
(Speaker / Panelist)
(DC-X Firsts)
President and Chief Technology Officer
New Frontier Aerospace (NFA), Inc.
(Online/remote participation)
Joaquin H. Castro
(Speaker / Panelist)
(Propulsion)
Aerojet Rocketdyne
Space Advanced Programs
(Online/remote participation)
James R. French
(Speaker / Panelist)
(Systems engineering and schedule)
AIAA Fellow (60+ year member of AIAA !)
President, JRF Aerospace Consulting LLC
(In-person participation)
Jeff Laube
(Speaker / Panelist)
Senior Project Leader
The Aerospace Corporation
Associate Fellow, AIAA
Chief Emeritus, Integration and Outreach Division, AIAA Council of Directors
(In-person participation)
02:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM EST: Check-in, Networking
03:00 PM PST / 6:00 PM EST: Introduction, Program Origins (Dan Dumbacher)
03:05 PM PST / 6:05 PM EST: Early Years – the politics (Jess Sponable)
03:12 PM PST / 6:12 PM EST: Establishing the program: SSTO to SSRT (Jim French)
03:27 PM PST / 6:27 PM EST: Program execution at MDA (Jeff Laube)
03:42 PM PST / 6:42 PM EST: DC-X – The ops demonstrator (Joaquin H. Castro)
04:02 PM PST / 7:02 PM EST: DC-XA – the NASA tech & ops demonstrator. What became of the DC-X tech (Dan Dumbacher)
04:17 PM PST / 7:17 PM EST: Commercial – SpaceX, Blue, … (Jim French)
04:22 PM PST / 7:22 PM EST: NASA – COTS, VTOL, … (Dan Dumbacher)
04:27 PM PST / 7:27 PM EST: USAF/DOD – Military Global Reach (Jess Sponable)
04:32 PM PST / 7:32 PM EST: DC-X Lessons Learned for the Future (All)
04:47 PM PST / 7:47 PM EST: Questions and Answers
06:00 PM PST / 9:00 PM EST: End of Program. Dinner for in-person participants and attendees. Networking.
07:15 PM PST / 9:15 PM EST: Adjourn (Library Meeting Room closes at 7:30 PM PDT)
Executive Director
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
Dan Dumbacher is Executive Director of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Before joining the AIAA staff in 2018, Dan was a Professor of Engineering Practice in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University. Prior to Purdue, Dan led teams at NASA designing and developing space launch vehicle systems and technologies for 33 years. In his final leadership role at NASA, he served as the Deputy Associate Administrator, Exploration Systems Development Division, Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate focused on the Space Launch System, the Orion Crew Vehicle, and Ground Systems Development and Operations. Dan holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Purdue University, a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and he has completed the Senior Managers in Government program at Harvard University.
President and Chief Technology Officer
New Frontier Aerospace (NFA), Inc.
Jess is the President and Chief Technology Officer for New Frontier Aerospace (NFA), Inc. NFA is developing high-speed point-to-point aircraft that fly to the edge of space enabling two-hour flight to everywhere. With a wide-ranging background in industry and government, Jess has extensive experience developing space, hypersonic, and reusable space launch systems and technologies. In November 2017 he left the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency where he served over two separate tours and seven years as a program manager. He led multiple space initiatives including the experimental spaceplane, high power solar electric propulsion, autonomous robotic arm, and solar thermal propulsion programs. With a combined budget of over $400 million and 50+ contracts, his efforts included technology maturation of satellite projects, power systems, solar cells, rocket engines, electric propulsion, and space launch. Prior to DARPA he spent over 30 years in the United States Air Force as both a military officer and civilian. His career supported diverse jobs ranging from Atlas launch operations at Vandenberg AFB to project management jobs developing and deploying the early Global Positioning System. Prior to the Space Shuttle Challenger accident, he was selected as an Air Force Manned Spaceflight Engineer and trained as a Space Shuttle payload specialist, then transitioned to support development of hypersonic flight at the National Aero-Space Plane program. Starting in 1991 he served in the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization managing multiple programs including the vertical take-off and landing Delta Clipper-Experimental (DC-X), which inspired many follow-on entrepreneurs. In 1994 he transitioned to the Air Force Research Laboratory supporting NASA’s follow-on initiatives DC-XA, X-33, X-34, and related technologies. In the Air Force he led or supported numerous projects and studies maturing hypersonic aircraft, orbit transfer vehicles, reusable space launch/military spaceplanes, and prompt global strike systems. Jess also spent several years in the entrepreneurial space launch sector working for Universal Space Lines and Pete Conrad, the Apollo 12 and Skylab commander. He has served on numerous national space transportation studies and panels. He graduated from the Air Force Academy in 1978 with a bachelor’s degree in physics and holds advanced degrees in Astronautical Engineering and Systems Management. He is a graduate of the Defense Systems Management College.
Aerojet Rocketdyne
Space Advanced Programs
Joaquin H. Castro has 43+ years of propulsion engineering, management and leadership experience. After the Aerojet acquisition of Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne (PWR) in June of 2013, he joined the Space Advanced Programs Organization of the newly formed Aerojet Rocketdyne Company.
In 2012 Joaquin assumed leadership of International Advanced Propulsion Programs activities at PWR. From 2006 to 2012 he led the strategy and business development activities for the PWR product lines for DOD applications. In this role he led a national team of Field and Program Managers responsible for the support and growth of PWR’s Military Business.
Between 1998 and 2006, Mr. Castro led the high-speed air-breathing propulsion activities at Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne with responsibility for all Hypersonic and Combined Cycle Programs. In this role, Mr. Castro’s was responsible for P&L, design development and deployment of hypersonic propulsion products including ramjets, scramjets, combined cycle integration and high-speed elements of combined cycle propulsion systems.
During his Pratt & Whitney career, Mr. Castro has participated and led the planning, design, development, certification, vehicle integration, field support and flight test of gas turbine, scramjet and rocket engines including TF-30, F100, SSME, RD-180, various RL10 models and RL60 engines. During his P&W tenure, Mr. Castro’s responsibilities have included the Management of P&W’s Advanced Upper Stage Rocket Projects, Engineering Manager for the RD-180 development and certification program, Engineering manager for the RL10A-5 Engine Program (four RL10A-5 engines powered the McDonnell Douglas single stage to orbit demonstrator DC-X vehicle), Project Engineer for the development and certification of the RL10A-4 nozzle extension system and Pratt & Whitney’s Venezuela’s In Country Manager for the Peace Delta Program. Mr. Castro holds two patents, has received numerous professional awards and has authored numerous propulsion publications over his career.
Mr. Castro is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the former Director of the AIAA Propulsion and Energy Group. Mr. Castro was inducted in the International Space Hall of Fame in 2013 as a member of the DC-X Team.
Mr. Castro is a commercial, instrument, land and sea rated pilot and a licensed aircraft mechanic. When not generating thrust with rocket and scramjet engines, Mr. Castro spends some of his time flying and restoring general aviation aircraft.
Joaquin has been married to his wife Lourdes for 43+ years. They have two beautiful daughters Chelsy and Leilani and three granddaughters Eva, Belen and Mackensie.
Education:
BSE, Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida, 1978
Undergraduate and Graduate Business Studies, Florida Atlantic University, 1980-82
MBA, University of Florida, 2006.
AIAA Fellow (60+ year member of AIAA !)
President, JRF Aerospace Consulting LLC
Senior Project Leader,
The Aerospace Corporation
Associate Fellow, AIAA
Chief Emeritus, Integration and Outreach Division, AIAA Council of Directors
Jeff Laube is a Senior Project Leader with the Aerospace Corporation and is currently a System design lead on the Space Nuclear Power and Propulsion team providing to support to the ongoing NASA and AFRL nuclear efforts. Mr. Laube has been a system engineer for over 40 years on a variety of programs. He's previously worked at:
- McDonnell Douglas on their Delta & Delta II rocket and the Delta Clipper, DC-X reusable launch effort
- Lockheed Martin on the X-33 and their Space Transportation Architecture Study
- Northrop Grumman on theri 2nd Generation Reusable Launch Vehicle and Jupiter Icy Moon Orbiter (A nuclear electric spacecraft) programs.
Mr. Laube is an Associate Fellow with the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and has served in a variety of roles as the Orange County Section Chair, Space Operations and Support Technical Committee Chair and recently completed a 3-year term as the Chief of the Integration and Outreach Division for the AIAA Council of Directors.