The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics is an American technical society dedicated to the global aerospace profession.
AIAA’s mission is to address the professional needs and interests of the past, current, and future aerospace workforce and to advance the state of aerospace science, engineering, technology, operations, and policy to benefit our global society.
Founded in 1963, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics has now (2012) more than 35,000 individual members and 90 corporate members. AIAA is one of the world’s largest technical society dedicated to the global aerospace profession. Created by the merger of the two great aerospace societies of the day, the American Rocket Society (founded in 1930 as the American Interplanetary Society), and the Institute of the Aerospace Sciences (established in 1933 as the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences).