Aidan was an active member of CrimsonAti and often visited our tailgate. He was a National Merit Finalist, majoring in mechanical engineering. His passion for space, flight, rocket and satellite propulsion, additive manufacturing and robotics made him one of Alabama's top students in engineering. He was Project Manager for the liquid fueled rocketry team at Alabama Rocketry Association. He was a summer intern at Argo Space in Los Angeles.
Aidan was one of those special students that comes along every once in a blue moon. He loved The University of Alabama. Our hearts and prayers go out to his family in Cincinnati. Visitation and funeral service: https://www.springgroveobituaries.org/obituaries/Aidan-Robert-Moncelle?obId=32652600. Aidan's Memorial Service will be available via live feed Saturday August 17 at 11am Eastern.
If you would like to make a tax deductible contribution to the Student Rocketry Support Fund, click on this link: https://give.ua.edu. Under "Can't Find Your Funds/Search all UA Funds Here". Type in 'Student Rocketry Support Fund'. Choose 'Make a Tribute Gift in Honor/Memory'. Make your tribute in memory of Aidan Moncelle. Once you complete the contribution, you can see if your employer will match your contribution.
Here is a tribute to Aidan from the Alabama Rocketry Association (via Instagram):
Aidan would have celebrated his 22nd birthday on October 28th this year. CrimsonAti will be making a donation to the Student Rocketry Support Fund on his birthday, lighting up the sky in memory of our friend Aiden.
"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies of laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds--and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of--wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air....
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace,
Where never lark or even eagle, flew;
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God."
HIGH FLIGHT
John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
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