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 two earlier societies: the
American Rocket Society (ARS), founded in 1930 as the
American Interplanetary Society (AIS), and the
Institute of the Aerospace Sciences (IAS), founded in 1932 as the
Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences.