Of interest to AIAA members in New England:

October 4-6, MarsWeek, reminder & clarification of AIAA $5 discount, see below.

October 9 at MIT: F-117A Stealth Fighter development and
U. of Queensland's recent successful hypersonic ramjet propulsion flight
test.
For information, Caroline Twomey <cmtwomey@...>.

October 9 at Olin College, Wellesley. 7pm start. Scott Pratt, iRobot Corp.
"miniature robots for urban search and rescue, and military tasks"

Oct. 29 to Nov. 1; BlazeTech course: "Aircraft Fires and Explosions due to
Accidents, Combat and Terrorist Attacks", see below

Nov. 6 at Boston University, Dr. Supriya Chakarabarti on the BU SPIDR satellite

November 12-14, 2002: IEEE Homeland Security Conference hosted by
IEEE Boston in Waltham, MA, save the date

NEW ! web address for AIAA-New England: http://www.AIAA.org/sections/nd/
future events will be posted at: http://www.aiaa.org/sections/nd/events.html


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MarsWeek:

To clarify: AIAA-NE members can receive a $5 rebate attending MarsWeek,

October 4 to 6, at MIT, Cambridge, Mass.
The full schedule is at: http://web.mit.edu/mars/marsweek/schedule.htm

MarsWeek -- a conference dedicated to educating university students about the
past, present, and future exploration of Mars -- is being held October 4th-6th
at MIT. For the past three years MarsWeek has brought in numerous expert
speakers from around the world to present on topics such as:

- Extra-terrestrial Life
- Robot/Human interactions
- Water on Mars
- Recent Mars missions such as Pathfinder and Global Surveyor
- Future human exploration of the red planet
- and much more.

This year speakers come from a variety of institutions across the globe such as
the Jet Propulsion Lab, Lockheed Martin Astronautics, NASA Mars Exploration
Office, RussiaCosmos, and many others.

Featured speakers include:
Jim Benson Chairman and CEO, SpaceDev Inc.
Pennelope Boston Mars scientist/specialist.
Larry Clark Lockheed Martin Scientist/Engineer
Z. Nagin Cox JPL scientist
Leonard David Journalist for Space.com
Orlando Figueroa Director of NASA's Mars Program Office
Chris Mckay NASA Ames Scientist
Lisa Rossbacher President So. Polytechnic State U., and Mars Scientist
Robert Zubrin International Mars Society President, and author

Please register online, at http://web.mit.edu/mars/marsweek/
Registration is $10 for students, $30 for professionals, list your
affiliation as "AIAA-NE". You will get a $5 rebate on-site with your
AIAA membership card. (sorry, they could not give the rebate on-line).

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AIAA - New England is looking for nominations for the N.E.
Section's annual Media Award. It goes to a print magazine or book,
broadcast, or other media that best explains an aerospace topic to the
public. The piece in question must have a New England connection, such as
the author or broadcast production company.
Send nominations by Nov. 1 to Rick DeMeis, rickd@....

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BlazeTech will offer a professional course:
"Aircraft Fires and Explosions due to Accidents, Combat and Terrorist Attacks"

October 29th to Nov. 1st , 2002, in Woburn, MA.
http://www.blazetech.com/Course_Listings/course_listings.html

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me:
N. Albert Moussa, 617-661-0700 x10

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assembled by Bruce Mackenzie, Pete Young, and others.