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(3/14) X-15 Movie, and Special Presentation "My Adventures with the X-15 Rocket Plane"

(3/21) DC-X: The 1st reusable VTOL rocket enabling modern space access and hypersonics

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(2/28) AIAA LA Outreach at the Da Vinci Schools' Community Aviation Day

(2/25) AIAA LA Outreach in the Beryl Heights Elementary School STEAM Night

(2/17) Young (Early Career) Professionals Mixer with the AIAA Los Angeles Section

(2/11) AIAA LA Aero Alumni (retirees from aerospace industries) Meeting

(2/7) From Resilience to Reinvention: Crafting What’s Next in Your Career (AIAA Los Angeles Section Career and Workforce Development Conference)

(2/5) AIAA LA Outreach and Judging in the PVPUSD Science Fair

(1/31) Honoring the 40th Anniversary of the loss of the Space Shuttle Challenger and the Crew of STS-51L

(1/29) Alef Aeronautics begins manufacturing of world’s 1st flying car (Q&A Fireside Chat)

(1/21) AIAA LA Aero Alumni (retirees from aerospace industries) Meeting

AIAA Los Angeles News and Updates

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(2/27) New airspace restrictions at LAX prohibiting law enforcement helicopters

(2/27) Firefly plans return rocket launch in California. Why that matters

(2/27) Archer teams up with Starlink to bring internet access to its Midnight air taxi

(2/24) NASA’s Curiosity Rover Just Took An Up-Close Look At Mars’s “Giant Spiderwebs” – But What Did It Find?

(2/26) Improving medicines in space for folks on Earth with Varda spacecraft

(2/26) Viridian (El Segundo) has been awarded a DARPA Embedded Entrepreneur Initiative (EEI) contract

(2/26) Musk Wants To Put 1 Million Satellites Into Space – The FCC is Asking For Opinions

(2/26) In Southern California, Aerospace and Defense Are Once Again Taking Off

(2/22) One Factory, Any Product – How Torrance’s Divergent Technologies is Printing a Bold Future

(2/22) Venture Capital Funds the New Space Race

(2/22) Elon Musk confirms target window for next Starship launch - Digital Trends

(2/19) Stratolaunch Announces $90.8M Contract Award under MACH-TB 2.0 Task 3 for Air-Launched Capability Test Vehicles

(2/28) Why LAX’s Automated People Mover Is Now Likely To Open In Late 2026

(2/26) Before Hollywood, archival photos show Los Angeles as an industrial oil frontier

(2/26) TTM Technologies Stock Surges 250% In a Year, and This Fund Is Betting Nearly $40 Million on More Growth

(2/26) The UAW Is Leading the Push for Green Jobs in California

(2/25) Microgravity Biotech: Off-Earth Innovations

(2/25) Community Physician and Small Business Owner Dr. Sonia Devgan-Kacker Announces Democratic Candidacy for the Open Seat in California's 26th Congressional District

(2/24) Los Angeles Commercial Property Sales Bounce Back In 2025 With $37B In Deals

(2/24) Sustaining Steady Growth In Santa Clarita Valley

(2/24) Angeles Equity Partners taps Eric Dunn as VP for its operating team

(2/24) Archer Aviation: The Hawthorne Airport Deal And The LA28 Olympics Catalyst

(2/23) Southern California’s Top 15 Cities For The Perfect Life

(2/23) Lithium Plume in Our Atmosphere Traced Back to Returning SpaceX Rocket : ScienceAlert

(2/21) Vast Takes a Giant Leap Towards Building a Private Space Station

(2/20) Where Mechanical Engineers Are Made: Inside the Baum Family Maker Space

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(2/27) AIAA Announces 2026 Key Issues to Advance U.S. Aerospace Leadership

(2/26) Faculty Advisor Spotlight: Danilo de Camargo Branco, Florida Institute of Technology

(2/25) Space Exploration Educators Conference Delivers Inspiration, Recognition, and Hands-On Discovery

(2/25) AIAA Bids to Bring the World’s Premier Space Event to the United States in 2029

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(3/1) Satellite images show the aftermath of airstrikes at Iran's drone bases, naval facilities, and radar systems

(2/28) NASA is sending its first Black and first female astronauts to the moon

(2/27) NASA Adds Mission to Artemis Lunar Program, Updates Architecture - NASA

(2/27) Satellite data enable first global estimate of aerosol cloud cooling

(2/26) ULA’s Latest Vulcan Mishap Just Blew Up the Pentagon’s 2026 Launch Schedule

(2/24) How Microgravity-Made ZBLAN Could Supercharge the Internet

(3/1) Data centers in space are even more cursed than previously believed

(3/1) CAS Space to launch Kinetica-2 in late March carrying prototype cargo spacecraft - SpaceNews

(2/28) Sentinel ICBM Restructure to Bring ’More Capability Faster’

(2/27) NASA scraps 2027 Artemis III moon landing in favor of 2028 mission | Scientific American

(2/27) NASA abruptly changes its roadmap to putting boots back on the moon

(2/27) The eVTOL Era is Beginning With Uber and Joby Aviation. Here's Everything Investors Need to Know.

(2/26) Lockheed plans nuclear fission demonstrator for future moon base

(2/26) ‘We’re Going to the Moon and Mars’

(2/26) Starlab: Microgravity’s Next Innovation Engine

(2/25) NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 Astronaut Update

(2/25) Senate Votes to Fill Seat of Air Safety Official Ousted by Trump

(2/25) UT To Enhance U.S. Space Force Detection, Response to Security Threats

(2/25) Revealed from Space: China’s Biggest Red Sword Exercise and a Rapid Industrial Buildup

(2/25) AMC Still Open to Wide Range of Options for New Tanker

(2/24) Portable Power for Defense Operations: Deployment, Remote Delivery, and the Tactical Edge

(2/23) Israeli startup targets the economics of high-resolution Earth observation - SpaceNews

(2/23) To photograph an Earth twin: NASA’s HWO Optical Design

(2/23) Air Force Announces B-21 Production Deal, 2027 Entry into Service

(2/22) Back To The Factory Floor: Why Boeing Is Moving Its Defense Headquarters Out Of D.C.

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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Shaping the Future of Aerospace

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