Jeff Laube Senior Project Engineer, Launch Systems Division The Aerospace Corporation

Jeff Laube is a senior project engineer with the Launch Systems Division, which is part of Civil and Commercial Launch Projects at The Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo, California. In his 30-plus years in the aerospace industry, Jeff has worked a variety of space launch and spacecraft development programs. At McDonnell Douglas, he was a mission designer for the Delta Launch Vehicle and PAM programs and a system engineering lead for the Delta Clipper Programs. At Lockheed Martin, Jeff was a Systems Operations Team Lead for the X-33/VentureStar Reusable Launch Vehicle Program. With Northrop Grumman, he was an element manager for the Project Prometheus/Jupiter Icy Moon Orbiter program and supported their Eagle satellite development program as system engineering lead and program manager. For AIAA, Jeff has served in a variety roles including Chair for the Orange County, California, section and recently has completed his term as Chair for the Space Operations and Support Technical Committee. Besides being recently honored as an Associate Fellow for the society, he is the Technical Program Chair for the upcoming AIAA SPACE 2012 Conference to be held Sept. 11-13 in Pasadena, California. He received his BS in Aerospace Engineering from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, in 1981 and his MS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Southern California in 1986.