Officers & Directors

President — Frank A. Slazer, Northrop Grumman

Executive Vice President — Lyn D. Wigbels, RWI International Consulting Services

Vice President, Education — Angela Phillips Diaz

Vice President, Finance — Carol Lane, Ball Aerospace

Vice President, International — Clayton Mowry, Arianespace, Inc.

Vice President, Membership — Patrick McKenzie, Ball Aerospace

Vice President, Programs — Kathy J. Nado

Vice President, Public Policy — Peggy Finarelli, George Mason University/CAPR

Vice President, Publications — David B. Spencer, Penn State University

Vice President, Strategic Communications and Outreach — Mary Lynne Dittmar, Dittmar Associates

Vice President Technical — Srinivas R. Vadali, Texas A&M University

Legal Counsel — Franceska O. Schroeder, Fish & Richardson P.C.

Executive Director — James R. Kirkpatrick

Executive Assistant — Diane L. Thompson

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Term Expires 2010
Linda Billings, George Washington University
Ronald J. Birk, Northrop Grumman
Rebecca L. Griffin, GriffinSpace LLC
Hal E. Hagemeier, National Security Space Office
Dennis Lowrey, General Dynamics
Molly Kenna Macauley, Resources for the Future
Erin Neal, ATK
Lesa B. Roe
Rosanna Sattler, Posternak Blankstein & Lund LLP
Robert H. Schingler, Jr.
Woodrow Whitlow, Jr.

Term Expires 2011
Peter M. Bainum, Howard University
Robert H. Bishop, University of Texas at Austin
Mark K. Craig, SAIC
J. Walter Faulconer, Applied Physics Laboratory
Jonathan T. Malay, Lockheed Martin Corporation
Arnauld E. Nicogossian, George Mason University
Christopher Nelson, Oceaneering Space Systems
Suneel Sheikh, ASTER Labs, Inc.
Patricia Grace Smith, Patti Grace Smith Consulting
Gregg Vane, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Term Expires 2012
A. William Beckman, The Boeing Company
Steven Brody, International Space University
Lance Bush, Paragon Space Development Corporation
Juergen Drescher, German Aerospace Center
Paul Eckert, The Boeing Company
Steven D. Harrison
Felix Hoots, The Aerospace Corporation
Kim Luu, Air Force Research Laboratory
Nicole Jordan Martinez, X PRIZE Foundation
Brooke Owens, Federal Aviation Administration

Looking Ahead – Key Space Events

Mar 10-11 — Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium
Earth and Beyond: The Next Decades
Greenbelt Marriott
Greenbelt, Maryland

May 13-14 — George H. Born Symposium
University of Colorado
Boulder, Colorado

May 17-19 — Kyle T. Alfriend Astrodynamics Symposium
Monterey Plaza Hotel & Spa
Monterey, California

Jun 11-13 — 6th Student CanSat Competititon
Amarillo, Texas

July 27-30 — 12th International Space Conference of Pacific-basin Societies (ISCOPS)
Delta Montréal Hotel
Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Deadline for new abstracts is April 15.

Aug 2-5 — AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference
Sheraton Centre Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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