Live Streaming of Convention Plenaries, Debates & Panels Available
The Mars Society will be convening its 19th Annual International Mars Society Convention at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. September 22-25, just weeks prior to the U.S. presidential and congressional elections.
Leading scientists, government officials, commercial space representatives, policymakers and space advocates will address the four-day conference on the latest updates about Mars exploration, planning for a human mission to the Red Planet and other major space news.
Some of the scheduled speakers include:
+ Jim Green, Director, NASA Planetary Science Division
+ James Watzin, Director, NASA Mars Exploration Program
+ Justin Wilkes, NatGeo MARS Series Executive Producer & President, Radical Media
+ Rep. Donna Edwards (D-MD), U.S. House Committee on Science, Space & Technology
+ Dan Mazanek, Mission Investigator, Asteroid Redirect Mission, NASA Langley
+ Timothy Cichan, Space Exploration Architect, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company
+ Don McCoy, Project Manager, ESA ExoMars
+ S. Pete Worden, Former Director, NASA Ames (Banquet keynote speaker)
+ Robert Zubrin, President & Founder, The Mars Society
In addition, the Mars Society has organized a number of public debates on issues of major importance to the U.S. space program, including whether or not NASA should fund the Asteroid Redirect Mission, the relevance of Planetary Protection oversight with regard to Mars human and robotic exploration and the legal basis for Mars and space settlement and sovereignty.
We hope you will be able to join us, and there’s still time to register. If you are unable to attend the conference next week, please consider watching our plenary talks, panel discussions and public debates via live streaming (provided by Advanced Visual Productions).
For more information about the 2016 Mars Society convention, including registration details and the full program itinerary, please click here.