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There is a paper mentioning some of his research and contributions to aeronautics, but I don't understand it enough to summarize the reception of his work for the article.
I also found a TAMU Engineering article from 2016 lauding that he won a "Distinguished Achievement Award" from the Texas A&M University Association of Former Students, but I'm not sure if that's worth mentioning. He also spoke at Purdue in 2024 and at CU Boulder in 2025, and I'm again not sure if either is worth a mention.
AAS Fellow?
His faculty profile states that he was made a fellow of the American Astronomical Society in 1987, but this is not possible. The AAS website says that the fellowship program was established in 2019 and the honor had never been awarded before. Although there was a class of legacy fellows, he was not included. I figured his TAMU profile was instead saying that he was a member of the society, but after looking at the member directory, he is not listed. (Nor in the archived version before they put it behind account-only access.)
Suffix
I am wondering which generational suffix should be used. The Danville Register uses "Kyle T. Alfriend III" in the running text, but "Jr." in the image caption, which is an inconsistency. Plus, Prabook says that his father was "Kyle Terry Senior", which also makes me think this K.T. would be a Junior.
I'm just a contributor to the article in adding more information from Newspapers.com and the Texas A&M site, I am not the creator of the article, the creator is blocked user SwisterTwister. I think the suffix with the "III" should be kept as of now, as it can perhaps show that his father might be named Kyle T. Alfriend II. According to a Newspapers.com obituary, Alfriend's father was referred as Kyle T. Alfriend Jr. in the Richmond Times-Dispatchobituary source, and that Alfriend III (the main subject) is still referred as Kyle T. Alfriend III in the obituary source. MoviesandTelevisionFan (talk) 04:37, 1 June 2026 (UTC)Reply
