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Taiwanese American Aeronautics and Space Association

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Taiwanese American Aeronautics and Space Association

Taiwanese American Aeronautics and Space Association (台美航太協會TASSA) is listed as a group member of the |Taiwan Center Foundation of the Greater Los Angeles.

Identity Snapshot

  • Chinese: 台美航太協會TASSA
  • English (as listed): Taiwanese American Aeronautics and Space Association
  • Relation: Taiwan Center group member (official listing)
  • Source: https://www.taiwancenter.org/group-members · taiwancenter-org-group-members.md

Role in the Community

  • The TAH story corpus holds a founding-context piece: 2. 台美航太協會 (2014-10-12, band B). It traces the association’s origins to the 1965 U.S. immigration law that let Taiwanese STEM doctoral graduates stay and enter government labs, universities, and industry — the professional pool from which TASSA formed.

  • TASSA was an active user of the 台美史料中心 (Taiwan American History Museum/archives, Irvine): per 林宏容’s memoir of founder Bob Cheng 鄭寶鼎博士 (articles/taiwanjustice-net 2026-01-21, 「斯人已逝，其德可追」), after the center opened in Feb 2014 Bob made its meeting/exhibition hall free for Taiwanese community groups on weekends — TASSA, 柑縣台灣同鄉會金桔會, choirs and dance troupes held regular activities and meetings there, and 林宏容 organized three 「正念學」Zen-lecture events at the center under TASSA’s name.

  • The broader corpus shows the movement-era aerospace cohort TASSA draws from: Dr. William Ko 柯威霖, the NASA scientist with the longest employment record there, forty years 1978–2018 — TAH record 383: Dr. William Ko. The corpus also preserves the 謝清志 / 台翔 aerospace-return episode (works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys253.md, ourjourneys261.md) from the same professional milieu.

  • The 1965-immigration-law founding context is independently corroborated in 楊遠薰’s band-A memoir of the Taiwanese migration wave — 2016 — which records that the 1965 law gave Taiwanese STEM doctoral students a path to legal residence and entry into U.S. government, university, national-lab, and corporate jobs: the same professional pool from which TASSA formed.

  • Re-grep 2026-09-22 (slice 09211400-11): corpus hits (record 2, 383, ourjourneys236, 斯人已逝 memoir) all absorbed; no new material, no conflicts.

  • Re-grep 2026-09-22 (slice 09220800-24): fresh ZH+EN+TASSA grep — hits are record 2, works/index, and the 斯人已逝 鄭寶鼎 memoir; all already absorbed above. Verified saturated; nothing absorbable, no conflicts.

  • Re-grep 2026-09-24 (slice 09230317-22): fresh ZH+EN+TASSA grep across content/works + content/articles — hit set identical to the records already absorbed above (record 2, 383, ourjourneys236, 斯人已逝 memoir, works/index); verified saturated, nothing new, no conflicts. SKIP.

Source Notes

  • Content priority A: Name on Taiwan Center group-members page
  • Hub: |taiwancenter.org
  • Content priority C: Independent history not expanded from listing alone

  • |Taiwan Center

  • |taiwancenter.org

  • Re-grep 2026-09-25 (slice 09240317-20): fresh ZH+EN+TASSA grep — hit set identical (record 2, 383, ourjourneys236, 斯人已逝 memoir, works/index); verified saturated, nothing new, no conflicts. SKIP. Re-grep 2026-09-25 (slice 09250700-22): fresh ZH+EN grep — hit set identical to records already absorbed/linked above; verified-saturated, nothing new, no conflicts. SKIP.

  • Re-grep 2026-09-26 (slice 09260400-26): fresh ZH+EN+TASSA grep across content/works + content/articles — hit set identical (record 2, 383, ourjourneys236, 斯人已逝 鄭寶鼎 memoir, works/index); verified saturated, nothing new absorbable, no conflicts. SKIP.

  • Re-grep 2026-10-04 (slice 09300315-24): fresh ZH+EN+TASSA grep — hit set identical (record 2, works/index, 斯人已逝 鄭寶鼎 memoir); TASSA use of the 史料中心 hall and the 正念學 events already absorbed. Verified saturated; nothing new absorbable. hits-hash=bc53d3298689

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