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Distinguished Speaker Michelle Evans Platform Change to Zoom - Check link!

  • 1.  Distinguished Speaker Michelle Evans Platform Change to Zoom - Check link!

    Posted 07 Mar, 2022 10:00
    **CHANGED PLATFORM TO ZOOM**
    New link: https://ucincinnati.zoom.us/j/93953307345

    Please join UC’s student chapter of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics virtually Thursday, March 10th at 7pm.

    We will be hosting Michelle Evans as a Distinguished Lecturer. 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.

    X-15 Talk Abstract and Michelle Evans Biography

    “The X-15 Rocket Plane, Flying the First Wings into Space”
    With the Soviet Union’s launch of the first Sputnik satellite in 1957, the Cold War
    soared to new heights as Americans feared losing the race into space. This
    presentation tells the enthralling yet little-known story of the hypersonic X-15, the
    winged rocket ship that met this challenge and opened the way into human controlled
    spaceflight.

    This remarkable research aircraft held the world’s altitude record for 41 years,
    and still has no equal to match or better its speed of more than 4,500 mph.
    Beyond the X-15 are the stories of the 12 men who guided it into space, and all
    the people who kept the rocket plane flying for nearly a decade. This is the story
    that has never been told of the vehicle that was the true precursor to the Space
    Shuttle by being the first piloted and winged vehicle to exit Earth’s atmosphere,
    and make a precision piloted reentry to a landing on hard-packed dry desert
    lakebeds.

    In her research, Ms. Evans conducted 80 interviews, including 9 of the 12 pilots,
    such as Neil Armstrong, Scott Crossfield, Joe Walker, and Robert White, with
    family representatives for the remaining pilots. Others she spoke with include
    managers, flight planners, and the technicians and engineers who made the X-15
    ready to fly its next research mission at high altitude and high Mach, expanding
    the frontiers of flight research.
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    Michelle Evans Biography

    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.”



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    Supplier Quality Assurance Representative
    Pratt & Whitney
    Cincinnati OH
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