The Downlink Podcast reports, “Citing China’s possible mission to send Taikonauts around the moon, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman told AIAA’s ASCEND conference attendees that the launch cadence to the moon must increase. Laura Winter speaks with Clay Mowry, CEO of AIAA and immediate past president of IAF.”
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Podcast: Industry Leaders Discuss Texas’ Space Strategy at ASCENDxTexas
Space News reports, “In this episode of Space Minds, Jeff Foust moderates a panel at AIAA AscendxTexas on the role Texas is playing in the space economy. With a series of industry leaders they discuss the capabilities and strategies required to stay competitive especially amid global competition and accelerating demand.”
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Aviation Week Podcast: What Did SciTech Reveal About the Future of Aerospace?
Listen in as Aviation Week’s Guy Norris and Graham Warwick report back from their annual pilgrimage to AIAA SciTech.
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Podcast: The Evolution of Multi-mission Orbital Vehicles
Space News reports, “In this episode of Space Minds, host Jeff Foust moderates the panel “Evolution of Multi-Mission Orbital Vehicles” recorded live on July 24” at 2025 ASCEND in Las Vegas. Panelists include Col. Owen Stephens, USSF; Seth Lacy, USSF; Micahel Creech, Firefly Aerospace; and Israel “Fig” Figueroa, Firefly Aerospace.
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Space News Podcast: The New Case for Mars – with Robert Zubrin
Space News reports, “In this week’s episode of Space Minds, Robert Zubrin, president of the Mars Society, sits down with host David Ariosto. With the debate heating up over exploration priorities, Zubrin lays out how — and why — humanity could become a multiplanetary species by heading to Mars.
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SWE Diverse Podcast: Starr Ginn – 2023 AIAA AVIATION Forum
By SWE Diverse Podcast
Originally Published 19 April 2023 by Society of Women Engineers
On this episode of Diverse, SWE President Dayna Johnson sits down with Starr Ginn, the Advanced Air Mobility Lead Strategist at NASA, and discusses the upcoming 2023 AIAA AVIATION Forum and reflects on her journey to NASA.
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About Starr Ginn
Starr Ginn is the Advanced Air Mobility Lead Strategist which is responsible for maintaining a “strategic view” of the larger AAM ecosystem wide movement to include advances in industry aircraft, airspace and infrastructure investment and capability; the developing and proposed regulatory framework for implementing change to support AAM missions; the role and participation of standards bodies involvement supporting AAM operations; and the movement and direction of NASA projects participating in the AAM Mission. In this role she leads the development of an implementable strategy for project direction and focus to enable the fulfillment of NASA’s Initial Automation Prototype while also advising and maximizing benefit to industry partners, regulatory bodies, and standards groups.
For the last three years, Starr Ginn led the planning, development, and execution of the Advanced Air Mobility National Campaign (AAM NC) series, which consists of flight testing an experimental AAM Eco System of novel eVTOL and cargo vehicles, infrastructure, and airspace management technologies in the context of increasingly complex safety scenarios enabled by automation.
Starr has 27 years of experience conducting one-of-a-kind flight tests. Starr has a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering and Master of Science Degree in Aerospace Engineering.