January 2023

Features

Train ’em. Trust ’em. Set ’em loose.

By Debra Werner

Nuclear rocket redux

By Jon Kelvey

B-21 unveiling

Departments

Editor's Notebook

Pondering our technical future in what we see today

By Ben Iannotta

AeroPuzzler

Napoleon in sunglasses

Aerospace in Action

Buttigieg meets Beta Technologies’ electric aircraft

By Paul Brinkmann

Election Preview

Meet your AIAA candidate for president-elect

By Ben Iannotta

Q & A

Martian aviator

By Paul Marks

Engineering Notebook

Inflatable heat shields: How to generate the needed gas

By Keith Button

Jahniverse

UN’s “loss and damage” fund should compensate newcomers to space

By Moriba Jah

AIAA Bulletin

January 2023 AIAA Bulletin

Flight Path

The Power of Convening

By Dan Dumbacher