ADVISORY/Boeing Rocketdyne Test Facility Designated Historic Aerospace Site.

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ADVISORY...for Tuesday (Nov. 6)

CANOGA PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 2, 2001

The Santa Susana Santa Susana can refer to several places:

The Santa Susana Mountains in southern California
Santa Susana Pass, running through the abovementioned mountains
Santa Susana Field Laboratory, near Los Angeles, a test facility for rockets and (formerly) nuclear reactors

Field Laboratory -- operated by the Rocketdyne Propulsion & Power business of The Boeing Company -- has been named a national historic aerospace site by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is the professional society for the field of aerospace engineering. The AIAA was founded in 1963 from the merger of four earlier societies: the American Rocket Society (ARS), founded in 1930 as the (AIAA AIAA American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc.
AIAA Associate Insurance Agency Administration (LOMA insurance program)
AIAA Aerospace Industries Association of America, Inc. ).

In a ceremony at the site in the Simi Hills The Simi Hills are a low rocky mountain range in Southern California. Geography
Simi Hills is located on the western edge of the San Fernando Valley, United States. They run east-west and they extend 26 miles east-west, and 7 miles north-south. above the West San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley

Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. and Simi Valley Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. on Tuesday, Nov. 6, the AIAA will dedicate a plaque commemorating 50 years of rocket engine development and testing.

AIAA leadership will be joined by Boeing executives, employees, retirees and other dignitaries to celebrate the rocket science that has launched virtually every major American space program from the earliest satellite and manned launches through the space shuttle.



WHAT:     AIAA Boeing Santa Susana Field Laboratory
          Historic Site Designation

WHEN:     Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2001
          10 a.m.

WHERE:    The Boeing Rocketdyne Santa Susana Field Laboratory
          Top of Woolsey Canyon Road above Chatsworth.
DIRECTIONS: From the 118 (Reagan) Freeway or the 101 (Ventura) Freeway, take
the Topanga Canyon Boulevard exit. Go to Roscoe Boulevard. Go west on Roscoe to
Valley Circle Boulevard. Go north on Valley Circle to Woolsey Canyon Drive.
Turn left. Go to the top of the hill. Park near the Boeing gate for badge and
escort onto the property. In addition to the dedication ceremony, the event
will include a bus tour of the facility and a hot-fire test of a Rocketdyne
RS-27A engine for the Boeing Delta II launch vehicle. Media representatives are
invited to attend. Please contact Dan Beck by Monday, Nov. 5 to arrange for
gate clearance.

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