Aerospace Legacy Foundation
Preserving our past, Focusing on the future of Aerospace
2024
Last Update: January 20, 2025
Aerospace Legacy Foundation
Presents
OuteRimCon the mini con EVENT
Sponsored by OASIS
A place to talk, listen and learn about Aerospace
February 1, 2025
1:30am - 3:30pm
A Donation of $10 at the door for admission
Redondo Beach Library
303 N. Pacific Coast Highway
2nd Floor
Redondo Beach, CA 90277
This is a fundraiser for ALF
ALF is a 501c3 Non-Profit Organization EIN-95-4709050
PROGRAM
Aerospace Engineering vs Science Fiction Imagination: what if aerospace engineers were part of the writing team or the conceptualization of science fiction movies and TV entertainment? How much different would it look like?
OUR GUEST SPEAKERS
Gerald Blackburn is an engineer and was a Project Manager with the Boeing Space and Communications Corporation. He was responsible for directing the Advanced Standards and Practices efforts in the Systems Safety and Product Assurance Department at the Huntington Beach Facility. Mr. Blackburn has been in the Aerospace Industry for over 40 years and retired in 2003. His career has spanned the entire manned space program from the X-15 at North American Aviation to the Apollo, Saturn SII, Space Shuttle and International Space Station Programs.
During his career on Apollo he worked in quality assurance and as a materials engineer. Thirty-five years were spent at the Downey North American/NASA site the home of the Apollo and Space Shuttle spacecrafts.
Mr. Blackburn has a MBA from Pepperdine University and is a native Californian. He enjoys spending time with his seven grandchildren and traveling with his wife Kathy. Mr. Blackburn is founder and CEO of Tinkers Corner LLC a STEM education resource company. He is a member of the advisory Board of Directors for the City of Downey Columbia Memorial Space Center. He is a Past President of the Aerospace Legacy Foundation here in California developing historical preservation and outreach projects.
Tim Cassidy-Curtis is an aspiring writer when not doing his day job (a job that involves things like rockets and space...gee, who'd want to give that up to be a writer?). Tim has been featured in the Quantum Visions Chapter Book and NOVA, The Magazine of Science Fiction. During his rapidly dwindling off-time, Tim is also member of the Aerospace Legacy Foundation Board.
Lauren Cipollo is a #1 Amazon Bestselling writer and illustrator specializing in science fiction, fantasy and other genre fare. Her debut trilogy, the bestselling PARALLAX series co-written with Matt Conant, debuted in April 2024 from Aethon Books to a 4.6 star rating on Amazon and Goodreads. Her dystopian short story WE USED TO FLY won a Silver Honorable Mention from Writers of the Future. In the gaming realm, Lauren is developing two tabletop role-playing games, one based on the PARALLAX universe and one based on Steven Peros’s comic book series STOKER & WELLS. Lauren graduated from the University of the Arts Cum Laude with a BFA in animation. Her love of animals and biology now influences all her projects. You can find more of her work at laurencipollo.com
Matt Conant is a show creator, best-selling novelist, and award-winning screenwriter, specializing in comedy, sci-fi, and genre properties. He’s also a writer on the latest three seasons of MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000. Through his production company, Cinevore Studios, Matt has optioned or sold TV projects to HBOMax, Amazon Studios, A&E Studios, and others. His debut novel, the space adventure PARALLAX: ORIGIN from Aethon Books, is a #1 Amazon Bestseller in Science Fiction, and the follow-ups ADAPTATION and EVOLUTION are now available in ebook, paperback and audiobook. Matt is currently attached to adapt best-selling video game series TEX MURPHY for TV. Cinevore.com
Shawn Crosby Artist/actor has worked as an artist for Griffith Observatory, propbuilder for Star Trek, toy designer for Mattel and Playmates, modelmaker for Disney and videogame designer for Vivendi/Universal. A founding member of Enigma Players Improv and Lux Theater fan-oriented performance groups, he is currently mouthing-off as host on Scifi.Radio and in the field of voice-acting, and most recently set science-fiction fandom back 30 years with appearances as himself on ABC's 1980s- and 1990s-something sitcoms "The Goldbergs" and "Schooled." In his alter-ego as semi-professional Jedi Knight “Obi-Shawn,” Star Wars geek and owner of the "H-Wing" and "Z-Wing" art cars, Shawn has traveled to the Pro Bowl, Super Bowl, NBA All-Star game, Skywalker Ranch, Johnson Space Center and other interesting locations teaching science, the path of the Jedi and lightsaber techniques to kids and kids-at-heart. He attends up to 160 charity and community events a year in costume portraying characters from Star Wars, Harry Potter, Steampunk and other creative realms.
https://www.facebook.com/ObiShawnC
Matthew Monahan has been Treasurer since 2019
He has been a lifelong resident of Los Angeles county and has had a lifelong interest in aerospace and its history. Doing his own research, he has in recent years joined the Aerospace Legacy Foundation as outreach chairman and has given talks on space programs at the last two OuteRimCon conventions as well as the last international space development conference.
