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THE 18TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL MARS SOCIETY CONVENTION

The Catholic University of America, The Edward J. Pryzbyla University Center

Washington, D.C. August 13-16, 2015

The following is the tentative program itinerary for the 2015 Mars Society convention. Please note that the schedule may be subject to change.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12

6:30-8:00 pm Early Registration* Park Hotel (Outside of Federal City Room, 2nd Floor) Washington, D.C.

8:00-10:00 pm Mars Society Steering Committee Meeting Open to the Public (8:00-9:00 pm) Phoenix Park Hotel (Federal City Room, 2nd Floor) Washington, D.C.

*Please note that while early registration on Wednesday is being held at the Phoenix Park Hotel, all four days of the Mars Society convention will take place at the Catholic University of America.

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Thursday, August 13

8:00-9:00 Registration Edward J. Pryzbyla University Center Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.

Morning Session

9:00-10:00 Dr. Robert Zubrin, President, The Mars Society Opening Remarks & Update

10:00-10:30 Jim Watzin, Director, NASA The Role of Robotic Precursors in Mars Exploration: Past, Present & Future

10:30-11:00 Dr. Geronimo Villanueva, Research Assistant Professor, Catholic University & Resident, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Discovery of an Ancient Ocean on Mars: Probing the Planet’s Past & Current Habitability

11:00-12:00 Panel Discussion: Preparing for Space via STEM Education James Brown, Executive Director, STEM Education Coalition Dr. Robert Terry, Lt. Col., Director, Aerospace Education, CAP Maryland Wing Lucinda Offer, CEO & Founder, Marsonauts Inc. & Women on Mars Nicole Willett (Moderator), Director, Educational Outreach, The Mars Society

Afternoon Session

1:00-2:00 Dr. Michael Summers, Member, NASA Team, & Professor, Planetary Sciences & Astronomy, George Mason Univ. Results from the New Horizons Encounter with Pluto

Track Talks (1)

2:00-2:30 Doug Plata, Strategy for Simultaneous Initial Settlement of the Moon & :30-3:00 Doug Turnbull, Food for Mars Explorers & Settlers 3:00-3:30 Andrew Geiszler, Living, Working & Growing in Glass Houses: Construction Methods for a Martian Colony 3:30-4:00 Kent Nebergall, Structured Settlement: From to Space Independence 4:00-4:30 Rodolfo Beltrán, Inca Technology for Sustainable Communities & Cities on :30-5:00 Dr. Susan Jewell, Space Surgery, Medicine & 3D Printing Technology on Mars

Track Talks (2)

2:00-2:30 Daniel Rivas, Development of an Exoskeleton Applied to the Human 2:30-3:00 Holger Isenberg, Mars in Colors for Humans 3:00-3:30 Aswath Unnikrishnan et al, Design & Development of an Intelligent Rover for Mars Exploration 3:30-4:00 Douglas Gage, Robots for Slow Excavation on Mars

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4:00-4:30 Raul Colon, Drones: The Next Big Thing for Mars 4:30-5:00 Sandhya Rao & Sreemon Chowdhury, Developing a Future Advanced Robotic Rover with Artificial Intelligence to Navigate the Martian Landscape 5:00-5:30 Jimmy Gora-Castillo, Mars Surface Relief Using a UAV

Track Talks (3)

2:00-2:30 Elizabeth Painter & Bradley Turner, Putting Boots on Mars: Undergraduate Research at a 2-Year Collegiate Institution 2:30-3:00 David Moran, Robots, Mars & the Great Unknown 3:00-3:30 Paulina Sidwell & April Andreas, Orientation EVA: Helping Crews Get a Jump Start on Sim 3:30-4:00 Karen Rucker, Enhancing Radio Communication in Analog Environment through a Repeater 4:00-4:30 Arwhil St. Thomas & Larry Benton, Study of Thermo-electric Generators with Blackbody Absorber & Photovoltaic Panels at an Analog Environment 4:30-5:00 Lori Tergerson, A Comparative Analysis of Soils of the Hanksville Desert to JSC-Mars-1A Soil Simulant 5:00-5:30 Crystal Webster, From Forest to Desert: 160 Million Years of Utah's Geology

Evening Session

7:00-8:00 Panel Discussion: Why We Try: The 100 Candidates Dr. Leila Zucker Sonia Van Meter Oscar Mathews William Dunlap Dr. Robert Terry (Moderator)

8:00-9:30 Public Debate: Is Mars One Feasible? Bas Lansdorp, President & Founder, Mars One Sydney Do, Graduate Research Fellow & Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Aeronautics & Astronauts, MIT Andrew Owens, Graduate Research Fellow & Ph.D. Candidate, Strategic Engineering Research Group, MIT Dr. Robert Zubrin (Moderator)

FRIDAY, AUGUST 14

Morning Session

09:00-09:30 Dr. Vint Cerf, Vice President & Chief Internet Evangelist, Google Long-Term Thoughts for Mars & Beyond

09:30-10:00 Dr. Jim Green, Director, NASA Division "The Martian": Science Fiction & Science Fact

10:00-10:30 Dr. Pamela Conrad, Deputy Principal Investigator & Investigation Scientist, MSL Sample Analysis Is Mars a Habitable Planet? What is Teaching Us

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10:30-11:00 Dr. Jennifer Stern, Space Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center The Present is the Key to the Past: Using Modern Measurements to Reveal Ancient Mars

11:00-11:30 Dr. Gil Levin, Engineer & Former Experimenter, NASA's Viking Labeled Release Life Detection Experiment New Data on Viking Life Detection on Mars

11:30-12:00 Bas Lansdorp, Founder & President, Mars One The Mars One Plan

Afternoon Session

1:00-1:30 John Guidi, Deputy Director, NASA, Directorate Integration Office, Human Exploration & Operations Mission Directorate NASA's Evolvable Mars Campaign and the Global Exploration Roadmap

1:30-2:00 Dr. Bhrath Gopalaswamy, Acting Director, The Atlantic Council's South Asia Center India & Its Growing Space Program

2:00-2:30 Dean Cheng, Senior Research Fellow, The Heritage Foundation's Asian Studies Center China: Its Goals & Mission in Space

Track Talks (1)

2:30-3:00 Kent Nebergall, Historical Cosmology, Human Identity & Exploration 3:00-3:30 Jeffrey L. Fitzsimmons, Cosmism 2.0: The Philosophy of Space & Mars Colonization 3:30-4:00 James P. Howard II, Planning for Martian Polity 4:00-4:30 Marvin Hilton, Exploring Mars to Help Civilize Earth 4:30-5:00 James Hurtak & D.E. Hurtak, Social & Legal Requirements for Establishing Human Life on :00-5:30 Martin Fowler, Two Worlds, One Mission 5:30-6:00 Steven Wolfe, The Obligation to Colonize Space

Track Talks (2)

2:30-3:00 Tony Muscatello, Mars Propellant Production Using Ionic Liquids 3:00-3:30 Gerald Black, Competition for a Super-Lift Launch Vehicle 3:30-4:00 Robert Clark, Short Travel Times to Mars Now Possible Through Plasma Propulsion 4:00-4:30 Kent Nebergall, Thunderbird: Bringing Robotic & Human Exploration 4:30-5:00 William Gardiner, Sweet Surrender: How Preparing Humans for Travel to and Living on Mars will Provide Knowledge for Healthier Outcomes for Humans Living Everywhere 5:00-5:30 Robert Clark, Propellant Depots for Low Cost Flights to the Moon & Mars

Track Talks (3)

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TBA

Evening Session

7:00-7:30 Dr. Harrison Schmitt, Former , The Moon: The Fastest Operational Path to Mars

7:30-8:00 Dr. Carol Stoker, NASA Scientist The Latest Discoveries from the Red Planet

8:00-9:30 Public Debate: What's Next for ? Dr. Harrison Schmitt, Former Astronaut, Apollo 17 Dr. Robert Zubrin, President, The Mars Society Casey Dreier, Director of Advocacy, The Planetary Society

9:30-10:30 Film: Brave Red World (By Daniel Land)

SATURDAY, AUGUST 15

Morning Session

09:00-09:30 Niki Werkheiser, NASA Project Manager for the In-Space Manufacturing Initiative In-Space Manufacturing: Pioneering a Sustainable Path to Mars

09:30-10:00 Dr. Carol Stoker, Planetary Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center Icebreaker Life Mission to Mars

10:00-10:30 Dr. Deborah Bass, Manager, Mission Systems Engineering, Jet Propulsion Laboratory The Rover: Programmatic Context and Planning

10:30-11:00 Dr. Jennifer Heldmann, Planetary Scientist, NASA Where to Land on Mars?

11:00-11:30 Jeff Foust, Senior Staff Writer, SpaceNe.com (Pending) Media, Mars & Space Exploration

11:30-12:00 Charles Miller, Space Entrepreneur & President, NexGen Space LLC Reducing the Cost of Deep Space Human Travel

Afternoon Session

1:00-2:00 Panel Discussion: Make Your Voice Heard: Space & Public Advocacy Rick Zucker, Director, Political Outreach, Explore Mars Casey Dreier, Director, Advocacy, The Planetary Society Art Harman, Founder & Director, The Coalition to Save Manned Space Exploration Lucinda Offer (Moderator), Founder & CEO, Marsonauts, Inc. & Women on Mars, and Former Executive Director, The Mars Society

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2:00-2:30 Dr. Bruce Jakosky, Principal Investigator, NASA MAVEN Orbiter Mission Early Results from the MAVEN Mission to Mars

2:30-3:00 Peter Nikoloff Mars Society Australia: What's Up Down Under?

Track Talks (1)

3:00-3:30 Rev. James Heiser, The Myth of Mars & Humanity's Vision of the Cosmos 3:30-4:00 Steven Wolfe, A New Space Settlement Bill to Rally Behind 4:00-4:30 Stephan Faulkner, A Politically Feasible Way to Colonize Space 4:30-5:00 Art Harman, Asteroid Redirect Mission: A Decade Long Detour from Real Space Exploration

Track Talks (2)

3:00-3:30 Lucinda Offer, Women on :30-4:00 First Lt. (U.S. Army) Heidi Beemer, Human Factors of Mars Analog Simulations 4:00-4:30 Sergio Huanqui & Luis Gongora, Semi-Automatic Green Hab Management System 4:30-5:00 Olenka Valderrama, Planting & Germination of Sweet Potato & Radish Plants at MDRS 5:00-5:30 Olivier Lamarre, McGill Robotics: Design of a with an Undergraduate Student Team

Track Talks (3)

3:00-3:30 Michelle Hallenbeck, A Brief History of the Search for 3:30-4:00 Haley Schuster & Steven Peck, Ethical Implications of Pregnancy on Mars 4:00-4:30 Miguel Cooper, One Day in the Life on Mars: An Essay about the First Human Martians 4:30-5:00 Stuart Spence, Inspiring Future Marsonauts with 3D Games Programming 5:00-5:30 Karen Elise Wormack, Educating the Next Generation of Marsonauts

Evening Banquet

6:30-10:00 Mars Society Evening Banquet

Music Performance: Al Serrani

Announcement of Awards

Evening Addresses: Dr. Robert Zubrin, President, The Mars Society Kevin Sloan, Director, University Rover Challenge

Special Guest of Honor: Andy Weir, Author, "The Martian" (via Skype)

SUNDAY, AUGUST 16

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Morning Session

09:00-10:00 Shannon Rupert, Director, Mars Desert Research Station Program MDRS 2014-15 Field Season in Review

10:00-10:30 Dr. Kris Lehnhardt, Assistant Professor, George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences & Former Flight Surgeon, Mars Desert Research Station Human Health in Space

10:30-11:00 Ed Hudgins, Director of Advocacy, The Atlas Society The Singularity & Space

11:00-11:30 Art Harman, Founder & Director, The Coalition to Save Manned Space Exploration : The Essential 'Apollo 8' for Mars

11:30-12:00 Dr. Robert Zubrin, President, The Mars Society Closing Remarks

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