On Oct. 22, 2012, former NASA astronaut Sandra Magnus, Phys’86, MS EE’90, became executive director of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. AIAA is a 35,000-member technical society focused on the global aerospace profession.
Magnus, who lived aboard the International Space Station for four months, was one of four astronauts to fly on the space shuttle program’s final flight aboard Atlantis in July 2012.