FROM IMAGINATION TO REALITY
20th Annual International Mars
Society Convention
University of California, Irvine, CA
September 7-10, 2017
Rise to Mars
Music by Oscar Castellino
Words by Oscar Castellino
and Robert Zubrin
Arrangement by James Welland
The new inspirational anthem “Rise to Mars”
will be sung by Oscar Castellino
accompanied by James Welland
at the Mars Society banquet September 9, 2017
Here are
the words of "Rise to Mars"
Rise to Mars! Men and women
Dare to dream! Dare to strive!
Build a home for our children.
Make this desert come alive!
There are challenges before our eyes
That nature never knew
But the power of human enterprise
Shall take us through and through!
Rise to Mars! Men and women
Dare to dream! Dare to strive
Build a home for our children
Make this desert come alive!
Come along raging nations
Altogether hopeful spirits
Bring an end to strife
For our future lies beyond the skies
Rise to Mars! Men and women
Dare to dream! Dare to strive!
Build a home for our children
Make this desert come alive!
Come along, altogether
For our future
Rise to Mars!
The premier of “Rise to
Mars” at the Royal Welsh Symphonia may be viewed on
the Mars Society YouTube Channel
Wednesday,
September 6 (Pre-Convention Events)
6pm-7pm
- Early Registration
University of California, Irvine
A311 Student Center
Irvine, CA92697
7pm-10pm
- Steering Committee Meeting
(The first hour is
open to the public)
University of California, Irvine
A311 Student Center
Woods Cove C
Irvine, CA 92697
Thursday,
September 7
Pacific
D
9:00am
- Opening Plenary
Dr. Robert Zubrin - President, The Mars Society
9:30am
- Plenary
Greg Benford - Author & Astrophysicist,
UC Irvine
10:00am
- Plenary
George Whitesides - CEO, Virgin Galactic
10:30am
- Plenary
Vera Mulyani - CEO, Mars City Design
11:00am - Plenary
Loretta Hildalgo-Whitesides - Author &
Consultant, Virgin Galactic
11:30pm
- 1:00pm - Lunch Break
Pacific D
1:00pm
- 4:00pm Aerospace
Workforce Development Symposium
1:00pm
“Opening
Space to Change the World for Good” George Whitesides, CEO, Virgin Galactic
1:30pm
Panel Discussion “Educating the Future Aerospace Workforce”
Landon
Taylor, CEO Base 11; Al Bunshaft, SVP Global Affairs,
Americas, Dassault Systèmes; Noramay
Cadena, Cofounder and Managing Director, Make in LA; Dennis Harkins,
President, Orange Coast College; Maria Tirabassi,
Engineering Vice President, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems; Gregory
Washington, Stacey Nicholas Dean of Engineering, UCI; Jason Hatakeyama, Chief Architect & Sr Director Product
Lifecycle Management, Boeing
2:00pm
Continued Panel Discussion
“Educating the Future Aerospace Workforce”
2:30pm
“Caltech/Base
11 Aerospace Mentorship Program: Learning by Experience,” David
Huynh, Caltech and “WSU Innovation Campus: Creating Stronger Industry
Partnerships through Applied Learning,” John Tomblin, Wichita State University
3:00pm
“To Infinity and Beyond” Jeremy Bout, The Edge Factor
3:30pm
Aerospace
Workforce Development Symposium Q&A and Closing Remarks
4:00pm - 7:00pm
Aerospace Workforce Development
Expo
1:00pm - 5:00pm - Session Tracks:
|
|
Technology Track 1
PACIFIC B |
Technology Track 2 MOSS
COVE A |
Political/Philosophical Track 1 -
MOSS COVE
B |
|
1:00 |
Morgan Irons; The Deep Space Ecology Three-Zone Model: Results of Recent
Experimentation with Ecological and Environmental Mechanisms and
Demonstration of Key Concepts of Operation for Quasi-Closed Eco-Agricultural
Systems |
Shyam Nair, Allen Frederick I. A., Abhisek
Balasubramaniam; Arachnidan 6 Wheeled All Terrain Explorer Equipped with a 7 DOF
Robotic Arm |
Bruce Cordell; Human Spaceflight to Mars as a Self-Organized Critical System |
|
1:30 |
James French; Optical Mining - A New Approach to Obtaining Space Resources for
Mars |
S. Bahram Sadighian;
Horizontal Takeoff and Landing to Low Earth
Orbit |
James Heiser; The Civilizational Continuity and the Martian Frontier |
|
2:00 |
John E. Parks; Look to the Sea: Applying Knowledge and Lessons from the
Management of Earth's Oceans for Permanent Human Habitation on Mars |
Doug Plata; The Moon: A Stepping Stone to Mars? |
Marvin Hilton; Exploring Mars to Civilize Earth |
|
2:30 |
T. Gordon Wasilewski; Acquisition of Water from Western Utopia Planitia
Subsurface: Theoretical Analysis of Sampling and Production Technologies |
Ted Ground; "Step One", an Auspicious D-Type NEO Multiple Mission:
Destination Deimos 2020 |
Craig Davidson; Why NASA’s Current Direction will Never get us to Mars |
|
3:00 |
Thibault Paris; Design and Building of a 3D Printed Pressurized Martian
Spacesuit |
Kent Nebergall;
Near Term Space Settlement Risk Reduction
Missions |
Doug Plata; What is the Business Case for Mars Settlement? |
|
3:30 |
Matthew Forir; The Case for the use of Electrical Resistivity on Mars |
Art Harman; Cis-Lunar?
Why a Lunar Surface Base Will Get us to Mars - and a Lunar Orbital Station
Won't |
Kent Nebergall; Rapid Space Development: Grand Challenges and Vast Opportunities |
|
4:00 |
Julian Zea; A Self-Sufficient Mars Colony |
Craig Davidson; Improving the SpaceX Mars Colonization Plans |
Art Harman; A New Hope - President Trump's Space Policy |
|
4:30 |
Ronald Hattie, The Cost per Pound to Orbit |
Craig Davidson; The SharkFin Magnetic Sail |
5:00pm
- 7:00pm - Dinner Break
Pacific D
7:00pm
- Panel
Sci Fi Greats - The Human Future in Space
Greg Benford
- Author and Astrophysicist
David Brin
Larry Niven
Jerry Pournelle
Friday,
September 8
Pacific D
9:00am - Plenary
Shannon Norrel - Hewlett-Packard, “Mars 2030: Future Travel to Mars Experienced Today by Virtual Reality”
9:30am - Plenary
Dava Newman - Former Deputy Administrator, NASA
10:00am - Plenary
Paul Davies - Director, Beyond Center for Fundamental
Concepts in Science, “Searching for a
Shadow Biosphere on Mars and Earth”
10:30am - Plenary
Joe Carroll - Tether Applications, “Living
Beyond Earth, in Partial Gravity”
11:00am - Plenary
Robert Pappalardo - Project Scientist,
Europa Clipper, JPL
12:00pm - 12:30pm Special Lunch Plenary
John Grotzinger - Former
Project Scientist, MSL, NASA, “The Curiosity
Mission”
12:00pm
- 1:00pm - Lunch Break
1:00pm
- 5:00pm - Session Tracks:
|
|
Technology Track 3 |
Technology Track 4 PACIFIC
B |
Medical Track 1 MOSS
COVE A |
Outreach Track 1 MOSS
COVE B |
|
1:00 |
Afanasenko Ekaterina, David Ture Gustav Wikström, Space Food Laboratory:
Transformations of space food from the beginning of space era to the future
Mars colonies |
Eric Robinson, John
Hunter; Green Launch - Cannons
to the Planets, Using Low cost Impulse
Launch to access LEO at 1/50th the cost of rocket launch for
fuel and supplies needed for a robust Mars Mission. |
Susan Jewell, Matteo Borri,
Nicholas Jewell, Matthieu Komorowski, Sheryl Bishop,
Emmy Jewell; Developing Telesurgery-Teleanesthesia Protocols, Integrating 3D
Printing of Surgical Tools, and Testing Viability of 3D Virtual Reality
Technologies |
Philippe Clermont, Richard Heidmann; Mars Colonization:
from Prospect to Project |
|
1:30 |
Marcus Anzengruber; How Augmented and Virtual Reality will
get us to Mars and help Colonize the Planet |
Thomas E. Markusic,
PhD; An Incremental Strategy for Mars Colonization
Part I: Material Supply Fleet |
Dr. Jose Antonio Soto, MD; MARS: Hikers Wanted |
Adam Lupsha; Speaking Martian to Earthlings - A Primer on Using PR and
Storytelling Principles to Pitch Your Science |
|
2:00 |
Aswath Suresh, Sri Harsha, Vinay Teja, Debrup Laha, Gautam Ranjan, Shivam Bharadwaj, Dhruv Gaba; Exploration-Probe to Jupiter Moon Europa |
Darrin Taylor; Free Delivery with Your Order |
Christoph Lahtz; Space Biology is the Key to Establish Celestial Sustainable
Human Settlements |
Mary Turzillo; Mars: Humanity's Evolving Vision |
|
2:30 |
Aswath Suresh, Sri Harsha, Vinay Teja, Debrup Laha, Gautam Ranjan, Shivam Bharadwaj, Dhruv Gaba; Innovative Human Mars Mission with Vertical Farming |
Joe Lingren, Kiva
Villegas, Wesley Yu; Low-Mass EDL Designs
for Manned Mars Missions |
William Gardiner; Better Martians, Better Humans: Will Genetic Therapy Allow
Better Living on Both Mars and Earth |
Peter Detterline,
Gary Becker; Two New
Astronomical Observatories at MDRS |
|
3:00 |
Dr. Joseph Parker; Advanced Propulsion Systems for the Colonization of Mars |
Abigail Riggs; The Use of Geophysical Techniques to Locate and Monitor
Potential Martian Aquifers |
Jan Millsapps, PhD;
How to Get (More of Us) to Mars |
|
|
3:30 |
George Lordos; Evaluating the Sustainability of Long Term Manned Mars Campaigns
Using a Physical Economics Framework |
Mikolaj Owczarzak; Augmented Reality and Telepresence Technologies in Future Mars
Exploration Missions |
Bill Hargenrader,
Jeff Pernell, Ron Sparkman; Healthy Eating on
Mars: Stepwise Local Approach to Whole-Foods (M:SLAW) |
James Melton, PhD; Top 10 Ways to be a Mars Messenger |
|
4:00 |
Michał Hałon; Mars Rover Design with SKA Robotics |
|
Dr.
Ashish Gothwal; A Prototype of Full-body Artificial Gravity
Harness |
James Burk; Mars
Society Internet Task Force - Conquering Cyberspace for Mars |
|
|
|
|
Dr.
Ashish Gothwal; Hypothesis: A New Era of Space Suits |
|
5:00pm - 7:00pm - Dinner Break
7:00pm - Panel
What should be the way
ahead for NASA?
8:00pm - Panel
Panel - The SpaceX Plan for Mars
9:00pm - Special Presentation
Mars in Film
Saturday,
September 9
Pacific
D
9:00am
- Plenary
Carol Stoker - Planetary Scientist, Ames Center,
NASA
9:30am
- Plenary
Xavier D. Simon - Advanced Space Exploration Configuration Design Lead,
Boeing
10:00am
- Plenary
Mars 160 Crew Presentation
10:30am - Skype Session
Dr. Mohammed Naser Al-Ahbabi, PhD. - Director-General, UAE Space Agency
11:00am
- Panel
Social & Philosophical Implications
Jim
Pass
Greg Benford
Paul Davies
James Heiser
12:00pm
- 1:00pm - Lunch Break
1:00pm - 5:00pm -
Session Tracks:
|
|
Technology Track 5 PACIFIC
D |
Technology Track 6 PACIFIC
B |
STEM Track 1 MOSS
COVE A |
Political/Philosophical Track 2 MOSS
COVE B |
|
1:00 |
Holger Isenberg; Practical Color Calibration for Mars Surface Images |
Robert Madsen; Virtual Reality - Simulating the
Simulation |
Bob Barboza; Occupy Mars Learning Adventures Fellowship Programs for Middle
and High School Students |
Mohsen Marefat; Social
Implications of Mars Exploration |
|
1:30 |
David Kutas,
Alexis Koulidis, Monica Stancu; Extraterrestrial
Drilling Operations - A Fundamental Research |
Gerald Black; Nuclear Fusion: Clean, Safe and Cheap Energy and the Next Giant
Leap in Space Propulsion |
Nicholas Jewell, Emmy Jewell, Susan Jewell,
Mark Kaushal; A 21st Century
S.T.E.A.M.E.D™ Academy Creating Experiential Learning with Exponential
Technologies Offering VR/AR Astronautic Programs and Fully Immersive
“Real-time” Simulators for Training NextGen Analog
Astronauts, Imagineers, and Astropreneurs |
Brent Lane; New World/New Worlds: Parallels in the Evolution of
Enterprise-based Exploration Financing from the 16th and 21st Centuries |
|
2:00 |
Kurt Chankaya; The Human Factor: Manned or Unmanned - Some Thoughts on Mission
Resilience |
Matteo Borri; Pneumatic Survey System for Martian Atmosphere |
Matthew Luttenberger; M.A.R.S. University |
Dr. Martin Fowler; The Time is Right for a Martian Covenant |
|
2:30 |
Kurt Chankaya; The Use of Atmospheric in-situ Resources for Radiation
Protection on the Surface of Mars |
Art Harman; Don't
Destroy ISS in 2024 - Privatize it! |
Zach Whitten; Whittenberg Country School
Parallax Robots |
Amir Notea, Frederico Monaco, Irene Lia Schlacht,
Antonio Del Mastro; Socially Organizing Large Scale Mars Missions: What we can Learn
from Earthlings |
|
3:00 |
Prasad Falke; What Improvements to the Deep Space Network are Needed to
Support Manned Missions to Mars? |
Art Harman; Mars
Flyby - Do it in the 2020s, not the 2030s |
Ivo Georgiev; MarsianSchool |
Robert Riccardi, ON/TO MARS! - A Private Funding Proposal for Mars
Landing/Exploration/Outpost Leading to a Permanent Settlement |
|
3:30 |
Kambiz Eqbal; An Approach through "Energy Offering Methods"
throughout the Human Establishment in the Martian Environment; Providing
Feasible/ Most Efficient Scenarios to Every Operational Stage |
Vinod Sridhar; Mars Electromagnetic Radiation Shielder
(MERS) |
Mark Cusimano,
Steven Shields; Mars Regolith Simulant
as a STEM Education Resource |
Danny Quintana; Space and Ocean Exploration, the Alternative to the
Military-Industrial Complex |
|
4:00 |
PP Edward
Heisler; The US Should End the Ban on NASA
Working with China |
Hoppe Jennings;
Mission to Mars: A way to teach middle school science. |
John Stone; How
to Fund a Private Expedition to Mars |
|
|
4:30 |
Melodie Yashar;
Mars Ice House: Designing for Human Factors in Space Exploration
Architectures |
Henry Stirk; Free Mars |
5:00pm
- 5:30pm - Break
Lobby
5:30pm
- 6:30pm - Cash Bar
Pacific D
6:30pm
- 11:00pm Mars Society Banquet
Song: Rise to Mars:
Oscar Castellino
Banquet Speaker:
Anousheh Ansari - First Female Private Space Explorer
Mars Society Awards
Ceremony
Remarks by Dr. Robert
Zubrin, Mars Society President
Sunday,
September 10
Pacific
D
9:00am
- Plenary
Dr. Darlene Lim - Geobiologist, Ames Center,
NASA
9:30am
- Plenary
Geoffrey Landis - Author & Planetary Scientist, NASA
10:00am
- Plenary
TBD - Lockheed Martin Mars Mission
10:30am
- Plenary
The University Rover Challenge
11:00am- Plenary
The University Rover
Challenge
11:30am
- Closing Remarks
Dr. Robert Zubrin, President, The Mars Society