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Program Itinerary - 19th Annual International Society Convention Catholic University of America, , D.C. September 22 - 25, 2016

Thursday, September 22 9:00am - Opening Plenary Dr. , President, The , Humans to Mars in a Decade 9:30am - Plenary Vadim Gushchin, Institute for Biomedical Problems, Moscow (via Skype) - Mars 500 & Beyond 10:00am - Plenary Dr. Jennifer Stern, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center & MSL Sample Analysis Team - Ingredients for 10:30am - Plenary Dr. Geronimo Villanueva, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Latest Searches for Trace Signatures of Current & Ancient Life on Mars 11:00am - Plenary Dr. Adrian Brown, NASA & SETI Institute - The Water Cycle 11:30am - Plenary Dr. Michael Hecht, PI, NASA MOXIE Instrument & MIT - Got Oxygen? MOXIE: A Practical Demonstration of Martian Resource Harvesting & Transformation

12:00pm - 1:00pm - Lunch Break

Thursday, September 22 1:00pm - 5:30pm - Session Tracks: Technology Track 1 Technology Track 2 Science Track 1 PP Track 1

1:00 ISS Technology for Nuclear Fusion: The Evidence Terran Life Private Funding Solution to the Originated on Mars, Proposal for Mars Missions? A Critical Energy Problem & to Steven Benner, Hyo- Landing/Exploration Engineering Advance Space Joong Kim, Yoshihiro Outpost Leading to a Assessment, Jurgen Propulsion, Gerald Furukawa & Elisa Permanent Solution, Herholz Black Biondi Robert Riccardi 1:30 Mars Atmosphere In UAV for Mars Evaluation of the Mars: A 200 Year Situ Resource Surface 3D Mapping, Human Plan, Mike Helton Utilization Projects at Jimmy Gora Microbiological Impact the Kennedy Space at Different Distances Center, Anthony Around the MDRS https://web.archive.org/web/20160906081513/http://www.marssociety.org/convention2016/2016-Schedule.html Page 1 of 9 7/22/20, 11:08 AM

Muscatello Martian Analog Base, Jeel Moya-Salazar, Roberto Ubidia-Incio & Marcos Bruno 2:00 : The Fractalnet - A Fire Ants in Space!? Cryptocurrencies and Essential "Apollo 8" Dynamically On the Ethical Values the Martian Economy, for Mars, Art Harman Expandable Network of Biodiversity in Heidi Hecht of Radio Replays to Human Space Enable Exploration, Michael Communications in Waltemathe Occluded Underground Environments, Lawrence Vaughn 2:30 Confronting the Blue Skies Research The Occupy Mars Exploring Mars to Credibility Gap for or -Driven Learning Adventures, Civilize Earth, Marvin Crewed Exploration Science Applied to Bob Barboza Hilton of Mars, Casey Mars Surface Handmer Images, Holger Isenberg

Thursday, September 22 3:00pm - 5:30pm - Session Tracks: 3:00 Entry, Descent, and Considering How Can We Use Art Humanity, the Landing for Human- O2PTIMA to Engage a Wider Interplanetary Class Mars Missions, Rebreather Public in Discussions Species & the Kshitij Mall Technologies for about the Human Legality of Colonizing Mars Space Activity Settlement of Mars, Space, Zach Miller Suit (MSAS) Ella Good & Nicki Application, Wayne Kent McCain 3:30 Hybrid Approach Meet the Next Mars Exploration 101, Bringing to Mars Mission Generation Rover to Mohsen Marefat Earth, Philip Turek (HAMM), Bill Explore Mars, MD Hargenrader & Ron Sabbir Bin Azad Sparkman

4:00 Concepts for Clamping System for Engaging the Public in Addressing Religious Advanced Space Electromyography Mars Exploration by Oppositions to Transportation Signal Acquisition for Integrating Science Human Space- Architecture, Planetary Analogue and Engineering with exploration, Michael Jayakumar EVA, Orson Lazo & the Arts, Jancy Waltemathe Venkatesan Monica Abarca McPhee 4:30 Innovative Low Cost A Simple Reliability The Settlement of Life on Mars, Matthew Mars Flyby Model for a Human Mars and the Luttenberger Spacecraft for Safe Mission to Mars Preservation of Interplanetary Human Using Monte Carlo Civilization, https://web.archive.org/web/20160906081513/http://www.marssociety.org/convention2016/2016-Schedule.html Page 2 of 9 7/22/20, 11:08 AM

Mission, Aswath Analysis, Wayne Rt. Rev. James Suresh & Others McCain Heiser, M.Div., S.T.M.

5:00 Mars Bureau - Traveling to Mars? Human to Mars 2030, Do this Now!, Wayne McCain Douglas Gage

5:30pm - 7:00pm - Dinner Break

Thursday, September 22 7:00pm - Plenary Dan Mazanek, Mission Investigator, Redirect Mission, NASA Langley Research Center - The Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) & Its Importance to NASA's Journey to :30pm - Debate Do We Need the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM)? Dr. Louis Friedman, Former Executive Director, Dr. Thomas Jones, Former NASA Astronaut and Former Member NASA Advisory Council Dr. Robert Zubrin, President, The Mars Society Art Harman, Director, Coalition to Save Manned Space Exploration, & Former Legislative Director, Office of Congressman Steve Stockman Jeff Foust, Moderator, Senior Staff Writer, SpaceNews, & Editor, The Space Review 8:00pm - Panel Legal Basis for Space Settlement & Sovereignty Dr. Jacob Haqq-Misra, Blue Marble Space Institute of Science Rick Tumlinson, Founder, New Worlds Institute, & Chairman, Deep Space Industries Dr. Henry Hertzfeld, & International Affairs, George Washington University

Friday, September 23 9:00am - Plenary Dr. Jennifer Eigenbrode, Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Constraining the Search for Life on Mars 9:30am - Plenary Jim Green, Director, NASA Planetary Science Division - Mars & International Cooperation 10:00am - Plenary Jim Watzin, Director, NASA - Mars Exploration Program Update 10:30am - Plenary Timothy Cichan, Space Exploration Architect, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company - : The First 11:00am - Panel Cosmos in Cosmoi - World View and the Perception of the Universe Rt. Rev. James Heiser, M.Div., S.T.M., Bishop, Evangelical Lutheran Diocese of North America Dr. Michael Waltemathe, Research

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Associate, Evangelical Theological Faculty, Ruhr-University, Bochum Dr. Paul Levinson, Communications & Media Studies, Fordham University Nicole Willett, Moderator & Education Director, The Mars Society

12:00pm - 1:00pm - Lunch Break

Friday, September 23 1:00pm - 4:30pm - Session Tracks: Technology Track 3 Technology Track 4 Medical Track 1 PP Track 2

1:00 Hydroponic- Astronaut Assisting Human Radiation Mars: The Next Aquaponic Food Autonomous Rover Exposure Tolerance Generation, Olivia Production System for Extra-terrestrial & Expected Scharfman for the Mars Desert Exploration, Exposure During Research Station, Unnikrishnan VJ, Colonization of the Matthew Akshay Moon and Mars, Maccarrone, Krishnakumar, Lonnie Joseph Constanza Cuneo Deepu P Mathew & Parker & Peter Merkle Anand S. 1:30 Feasibility of Universal Robotic Psychological & Funding the First Implementing an Arm System with Environmental Colony, Jerry Automated Drip Interchangeable Factors Associated McMahan Irrigation System End Effectors and with Hermetic for Greenhouses, Advanced Human- Habitat for Long- E. Centurion Rover Interface, duration Planetary Cancino Maciej Rećko, Mission Simulators, Michał Ostaszewski Sandya Rao & & Justyna Tołstoj- Sreemon Sienkiewicz Chowdhury 2:00 To Evaluate Sweet Surrender II: The Space Age Germination of Analogue Recent Results from Agenda for the Next Prosopis Pallida Integrated ISS Studies of President, Art Simulators Martian Controller, Based Underlying Genetic, Harman Soil, Nolver William on Real Time Nutritional Status, Huaman Minga Operating System, and Endocrine Piotr Czaplicki, Factors in Maciej Baka & Ophthalmic Justyna Tołstoj- Changes in Sienkiewicz Astronauts Point to Improved Means for Preparing Humans for Travel to Mars, William Gardiner

Friday, September 23 2:30pm - 4:00pm - Session Tracks: https://web.archive.org/web/20160906081513/http://www.marssociety.org/convention2016/2016-Schedule.html Page 4 of 9 7/22/20, 11:08 AM

2:30 Optimization of Acquisition Module Impact of Long term Space Exploration Agal Extracellular Transportation Microgravity on the and Terrorism: Polysaccharide Rover, Marcos Human Brain Apolitical, Techno- Breakdown to Bruno & Gabriel Assessed by savvy, Mission- Ethanol, John Caballero Magnetic intensive, and Hursh Resonance Imaging Fighting for the in Astronauts, Future, Martin Donna Roberts, Fowler Moritz Albrecht, A. Rano Chatterjee, Michael Atonucci & M. Vittoria Spampinato 3:00 How to Grow a Hexapod Robot Astronaut Radiation The Great Mars Base: Based on Exposure During Exhaustion or the Sustaining Life on Arthropod L for Mars-Earth Transit Great Liftoff? Mars is More than Difficult Exploration from Perspective of Joshua, Mitchell Just Whether a Areas on Mars, Modern Radiation Plant Will Grow, Jenory Celeste Oncology Morgan Irons Balladares Treatment, Brian Thorndyke 3:30 Inflatable Habitats: Control System, STEM Track 1 Immediate and Telemetry and Shielded, Doug Navigation of Mars Simulation of Plata Rover Analogue, Simulation: Using Artur Stanisław Virtual Reality to Milewski, Jakub Sim the Sim, Robert Bartosz Kuryło & Madsen Justyna Tołstoj- Sienkiewicz

Friday, September 23 4:00pm - 4:30pm - Session Tracks: 4:00 Paraterraforming: ArmorHab: Design Achieving an Earth- Reference like Environment Architecture for Much Earlier, Doug Human Habitation Plata in Deep Space, Peter Vorobieff, Craig Davidson, Mahmoud Reda Taha Peng & Christos https://web.archive.org/web/20160906081513/http://www.marssociety.org/convention2016/2016-Schedule.html Page 5 of 9 7/22/20, 11:08 AM

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4:30pm - Plenary Rep. Donna F. Edwards (D-MD), U.S. House Committee on Science, Space & Technology - Remarks on the U.S. Space Program 5:00pm - Plenary Nicholas Cummings, Staff Director, Senate Subcommittee on Space, Science & Competitiveness - Reaching for Mars - A Policy Perspective

5:30pm - 7:00pm - Dinner Break

7:00pm - Debate - Does It Go Too Far? Representative (TBD), Planetary Protection Division, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Dr. Robert Zubrin, President, The Mars Society 8:00pm - Debate Likely Views by a Clinton or Trump Administration on U.S. Space Policy TBD

Saturday, September 24 9:00am - Plenary Chris Carberry, CEO, Explore Mars, Creating a Unified Campaign for Mars 9:30am - Plenary Dr. Jack Mustard, Brown University, Mars Geology 10:00am - Plenary Dr. Stefanie Milam, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - James Webb Space Telescope Mission Update 10:30am - Plenary Dr. Paul Herz, Director, NASA Science Mission Directorate - Kepler Space Telescope Mission Success & Update 11:00am - Panel STEM Education & the Pathway to the Red Planet Jennifer Mandel, STEM Programs, Director, Lockheed Martin Alyssa Carson, Teenage Astronaut-in-Training & STEM Advocate Bob Barboza, STEM Advocate & Founder, Kids Talk Radio Nicole Willett, Moderator & Education Director, The Mars Society

12:00pm - 1:00pm - Lunch Break

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1:00pm -5:30pm - Competition International Gemini Mars Design Competition

1:00pm - 5:30pm - Session Tracks Technology Track 5 Miscellaneous Track

1:00 Economics of Mars Infrastructure, James Aerodynamic Study for Installation Zones Howard II for Wind Turbines in Mars, Luis Felipe Ibañez Pachon

1:30 A Detailed, Modern Space Economy, Kent International Cooperation, Why China Nebergall Cannot be a Trusted Partner, Art Harman

Saturday, September 24 2:00pm - 5:30pm - Session Tracks

2:00 Sanctuaries in the Sky. A Comparative Habitability on Mars Space Stations analysis of Religious and Space Research and Laboratories Applied to Architecture, Michael Waltemathe Climate Change and Droughts, Prof. Julio Rezende, PhD

2:30 Feasibility Study of Ultrasonic Erosion of Project M.A.R.S., Leszek Orzechowski Cellulose for Mars, Sherry Draisey

3:00 Space Settlement Laboratory, Kent Polywell Fusion Reactors - Review and Nebergall Status, Dr. Robert E. Terry

3:30 The Design and Iteration of a Mars Rover BUBT Mars Rover, Nazmus Sakib with McGill Robotics, Oliver Lamarre

Saturday, September 24

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4:00pm - 5:30pm - Session Tracks

4:00 Moon then Mars, Why the Moon is The Why and How of Mars?, David R. Essential to Survive on Mars, Art Harman Haslam

4:30 TRED: and Regenerative Making Mars Marvelous, Tina D. Jones, Ecosystems Design, Christopher Jannette David R. Haslam

5:00 The Atlas Program, Michael Bouchard

5:30pm - 6:00pm - Break Mars Society Banquet 6:00pm - 7:00pm Cash Bar 7:00pm-11:00pm Mars Society Banquet Update from Crew of Mars Desert 80 Mission (via Skype) from MDRS Q&A with NatGeo's MARS Series Executive Producer Justin Wilkes, President Radical Media, followed by a viewing of the latest MARS trailer Banquet Speaker: Dr. S. Pete Worden, Former Director, NASA Ames Research Center, & Chairman, Breakthrough Prize Foundation Mars Society Awards Ceremony Remarks by Dr. Robert Zubrin, Mars Society President

Sunday, September 25 9:00am - Plenary Dr. Don McCoy, Project Manager, ExoMars, ESA - Latest News about the ExoMars Mission 9:30am - Plenary Eric Stalmer, President, Commercial Space Federation - TBD 10:00am - Plenary Kevin Sloan, Director, URC, The Mars Society - Results from the 2016 University Rover Challenge 10:30am - Plenary Stuart Woods, Member, Executive Team, UKURC - Update on the 2016 UK University Rover Challenge 11:00am - Plenary Dr. Edward Hudgins, Director of Advocacy & Senior Scholar, The Atlas Society - Economy, Longevity, and Martian Settlement

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11:30am - Closing Remarks Dr. Robert Zubrin, President, The Mars Society

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