The Mars Quarterly www.MarsSociety.org 1 In This Issue Summer 2009 - Volume 1, Issue 3 The Summer of Mars Of Time and Money Publisher By Chris Carberry .........................3 By Patricia Czarnik ......................16 The Mars Society An Interview with Alan Bean York University Runs Away Headquarters 11111 W. 8th Ave., Unit A Astronaut and artist With the Title at URC Lakewood, CO 80215 USA By Chris Carberry .........................4 By Kevin F. Sloan ........................17 www.MarsSociety.org Readers' Forum Passion: Don't Leave Home The Mars Society Call for a Global Without It! President..........................Robert Zubrin Space Revolution An Interview with Andrew Chaikin Treasurer..............................Gary Fisher by Shaun Moss.............................8 By Chris Carberry .......................18 Secretary...........................Sara Spector Executive Director..........Chris Carberry Mars: A Personal Journey Settling the Solar System Accounts Receivable Director by Hugh Downs ..........................12 By Gen. Simon "Pete" Worden ...22 .............................................Patt Czarnik Webmaster...............................Alex Kirk Simplifying the Difficult The 2013 MAVEN Mission Director, Public Relations ...Kevin Sloan by U.S. Rep. 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Contributing Editors ......Chris Carberry, Artemis Westenberg, Josh Grimm, From the Flight Deck Blake Ortner, Byron Wiedeman, Gus Scheerbaum, Jean Lagarde, Joseph Webster, Kevin Sloan, We break new ground with this issue We hope you enjoy the outstanding Patt Czarnik, Alex Kirk by offering both a print and digital visual content of this issue which A Note to Readers edition, and will expand our reach by includes the cover by Michael Carroll, The views expressed in articles are providing a complimentary print copy centerfold by Greg Martin, and the art the authors’ and not necessarily those to each member of the U.S. Congress of Alan Bean, Ron Miller, and of course, of The Mars Quarterly, or The Mars during our Great 2009 Mars Blitz on the humor of Theresa McCracken. We Society. Authors may have business July 30. 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Please include Mike Flynn 1949 - 2009 your full name, address, and daytime Air Tanker Pilot/Wildland Firefighter phone number. The Mars Society is a Husband of Marilynn Flynn, 501(c)(3) organization. Tharsis Artworks The Mars Quarterly 2 Volume 1, Issue 3 The Summer of Mars By Chris Carberry The summer of 2009 has arrived and in low earth orbit as we have been for Challenge just completed its third we have reached the pivotal moment over 35 years. As has been our annual competition; and The Mars we have been waiting for. President tradition since our founding, The Mars Society of Germany is making great Obama is now in office and his Society plans to make every effort strides forward with their Mars balloon administration will be making key during the remainder of 2009 and project, Archimedes. In addition, we decisions concerning the future of the beyond to rally support for human are running our annual convention and space program as early as this year. missions to Mars through meetings introducing the print version of The The selection of with Congress, the Mars Quarterly. All in all, not a bad Charlie Boland as ...The Mars Society Administration and year. If you ever wondered whether NASA Administrator other decision- your donations and membership fees and Lori Garver as plans to make every making and advisory were pout to good use, look at this list. Deputy effort during the bodies. I highly doubt you will find any other Administrator is In addition to our space advocacy group who has been certainly a good remainder of 2009 political efforts, The so productive in the same time period. sign. In addition, the and beyond to rally Mars Society hopes I hope all of you will join us at our appointment of to influence space conference at the University of Norm Augustine to support for human policy by our Maryland and take part in our massive review NASA’s missions to Mars... example. We are in Mars Blitz. Although the current human space flight the midst of the economic climate may seem as though program is reassuring as well. busiest year in our history. We are it might make our goals less likely, hard However, these decisions do not conducting a mission to our Flashline times can often create opportunity. guarantee that the administration will Mars Arctic Research Station (FMARS); Help us create this opportunity and join decide to choose an ambitious human we are running reinvigorated MDRS us on Capitol Hill or call and write your space program. On the contrary, if the seasons; we will be conducting a high members of Congress and President space advocacy community does not altitude balloon drop later this year to Obama. One person can make a step up and demand something bold, test components of our tether gravity difference - imagine what thousands of we could very well remain imprisoned satellite, TEMPO³; the University Rover people can do! The Mars Quarterly www.MarsSociety.org 3 An Interview with Alan Bean ASTRONAUT AND ARTIST By Chris Carberry Carberry: First, a general question. the Pilgrims came over. It just takes in stories about the moon, but they’re This year is the 40th anniversary of time to do these things. I’ve been not at all interested about spending both Apollo 11 and 12. What are your able to be more accepting of the fact any money. We’re interested, the general thoughts on this anniversary that we’re not moving as fast as we people reading your magazine are year? could, because I think this is what interested; the guys that I got together Bean: I just got back this last week countries and cultures and peoples with this past weekend and at past from Oklahoma City for the 40th do. events are; but we’re just a small anniversary of Apollo 10, and then minority of the country. I don’t see us Apollo 8 and 9 in San Diego, and then Carberry: I agree that it is very easy going back to the moon for another Apollo 7 up in Dallas. So, with the to get into these kinds of ruts where 50-60 years, but what do I know. Do 40th anniversary of each of these, society is unwilling to push the you see Obama coughing up any we’ve gotten together and celebrated boundaries, but sometimes changes in money to send us back to the moon? and remembered all the fun times we governments or moods can break us Do you really? had. free from these ruts. Do you think the change of administration could Carberry: Perhaps as a result of the Carberry: Did you think we’d be change things - start accelerating the stimulus plans or do you think foreign further along after 40 years? program? competition could motivate Obama? Bean: What we were doing then - I Bean: Well, what I think it should do Do you think we should stay in the didn’t realize it then, but I do now - we and what I think it will do are two lead? were going as entirely different Bean: Yeah, we are in the lead. fast as and far as matters. I would Nobody is even close to us. That’s we could like to see people one of the problems that we’ve got - technically. We ...We were going as start moving nobody is even in the game compared were doing the fast as and far as we ahead as fast as with the United States. It’s just a lot of best that we we could - to talk - China, maybe they’re going to could. We were could technically. explore - explore drop something, but they haven’t building the We were doing the Mars. If you ask done squat. India hasn’t done lunar module. me, I’d say skip anything - Russia doesn’t do anything We were getting best that we could.