Baywatch Calendar June 4-6

GEORGE "BUDDY" GUY a pioneer of the Chicago blues sound, performs at 7:30 p.m. June 7 at the Saenger Theatre. He was ranked thirtieth in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time."

RINGLING BROTHERS AND BARNUM AND BAILEY CIRCUS performs June 9-12 at the Mobile Civic Center. Tickets for BARNUM 200 on sale now through www.Ringling.com, Ticketmaster or the Mobile Civic Center box office. For more information, visit mobilecivicctr.com.

HOGZILLA 2011 a fundraiser for Camp Smile. The event, organized by The Ladies of Harley, is a beauty pageant with a twist... all the contestants will be male hog riders to be held at 7 p.m. June 18 at Veet's Bar and Grill, 66 S. Royal St. Roughly 15 of the Mobile Hog Chapter's manliest members will lose the leather jackets and helmets to don dresses and lipstick. It's a great photo/video opportunity -- and a great way to give back to the community. Contact Howard Hall at hehall3460@comcast.net .

ONE STAGE - ONE NIGHT: Mithril and Roman Street 7:30 p.m. June 23, at the Saenger Theater. Roman Street is an energetic band dabbling in the arts of "new" flamenco, smooth and not-so-smooth jazz, and its own brand of fusion style music with a youthful and spontaneous approach to musical expression. Mithril is fast becoming one of the most sought after Celtic/World music groups on the concert series scene.

This Week On The Space Show | International Space Fellowship

Dr. Klaus Dannenberg of AIAA, Dr. Jeff Farmer of NASA MSFC, and Dr. David Williams of NASA JSC come to discuss the upcoming AIAA ICES Conference to be held in Portland, OR from July 17-21, 2011. Visit the conference website for more information, www.aiaa.org/content.cfm?pageid=230&lumeetingid=2450.

Dr. Klaus Dannenberg is the Deputy Executive Director and Chief Strategy Officer of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). In this capacity, he has responsibility for the Institute’s strategic direction including new application areas within the changing 21st century global aerospace marketplace, new constituencies that reflect that marketplace, and new products and services planned to fulfill the needs of the professional aerospace community. Prior to joining the AIAA staff in 2005, his 37-years in the aerospace industry were focused on application of information technology to complex aerospace and defense problems, primarily development of guidance, navigation, and control systems and C3I systems.

He is a Fellow of the AIAA and has served as AIAA’s Vice President-Finance, as Technical Director for Information Systems, and as chair of the Institute’s Honors and Awards program. Other professional responsibilities have included leadership roles in the National Training Systems Association, the Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. He has served on the Boards of Advisors for several universities in their respective schools of engineering and/or departments of aerospace engineering.

David Williams has worked at Johnson Space Center for almost 26 years.  He worked as a contractor for 8 1/2 years and the last 17 years as a civil servant.  He first worked in the Mission Operations Directorate as a certified flight controller in the life support area for the Space Shuttle for four years.  He then worked in the Flight Crew Operations Directorate as a Group Lead for McDonnell Douglas managing the core system engineers in the Astronaut Support Office and was also responsible for the fluid systems for the Space Station Freedom for four and half years.  In 1994 he accepted a civil servant position in the International Space Station Program Office (ISSPO) as the Deputy Environmental Control and Life Support (ECLS) System Manager for five years before taking a short rotation in Payload Engineering and Integration group for a year.  Eleven years ago he transferred to the Engineering Directorate to become the International Space Station ECLS System Manager when the System Management job was transferred from the Program Office to Engineering Directorate.  He stayed in that position for nine years before he decided to try a new challenge when he accepted a position as the Thermal/ECLS System Integration Group Co-Lead for the Constellation Program Office.   As the Constellation Program was shutting down he started supporting the Commercial Crew & Cargo Program Office (C3PO) as the Active Thermal/ECLS C3PO Advisory Team Lead for the Cargo Vehicles and for Commercial Crew Development – 1 (CCDev – 1) project.  He currently is supporting the Commercial Crew Program Office (CCPO) as a lead for Active Thermal/ECLS area for CCDev -2.   In support of the ICES Conference David Williams is currently the 2011 ICES Vice Chair.  In the past he was the Key Note Speaker one year, the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME) Steering Committee member for ICES Conference for three years, has been the lead author for 28 papers, has chaired numerous sessions, and also has been the co-author of numerous papers.

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