It covers all areas of aeronautics and astronautics, particularly with respect to new theoretical and experimental developments.

The current editor-in-chief is Tom I-P. Shih from Purdue University.

[2] The history of the AIAA Journal is linked with the development of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

This journal was published on a monthly basis beginning in 1935.

[3] The American Rocket Society was founded and began to publish in roughly the same time frame, with their main publication titled The Journal of the American Rocket Society.