今年のテーマは「The Space Launch Revolution: Opening the Way to Mars」です。
会期は、10月17日～20日の4日間です。
16日には、19時から運営委員会会議が行われます。(冒頭の聴講が可能らしい)
詳細なスケジュールは、下記サイトにて
https://www.marssociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2019_Mars_Society_Convention_Schedule.pdf
個人的興味は、以下の通りです。
10月17日
9:30am - Plenary
Luther Beegle - Deputy Division Manager of JPL’s Science Division：
Exploring Mars Underground / Search for Water & Life
8:00pm – Debate NASA's Proposed Gateway：
Robert Zubrin, President, The Mars Society and Greg Autry, Director, SoCal Commercial Spaceflight Center
10月18日
10:30am - Plenary
Dave Poston, NASA Kilopower Project：Mars Nuclear Power Production
11:00am - Plenary
Tom Hoffman- Insight Project Manager, NASA
Mars InSight Mission Update
11:30am - Economic Panel - Opportunities for Space Entrepreneurs
Panelists: Dr. Alexander C. MacDonald, Program Executive for Emerging Space, Office of the Chief Technologist, NASA HQ
Sean McClinton, President, Seattle Space Entrepreneurs & Founder, SDM Enterprises, Inc., Lennart Lopin, Founder & President, The Marscoin Foundation. President/CEO, ByteFederal. James L. Burk, IT Director, The Mars Society & Senior Manager of Business Mgmt Services, Artic Consulting
1:00pm - 5:00pm - Session Tracks:
2:00pm Track 1：Doug Plata/SpaceX's Starship:SpaceX's Starship:Moon or Mars Rocket?
Track 2：Edward Heisler /In Defense of Elon Musk and SpaceX
2:30pm Track 3：Shannon Rupert/Crewed Mars Missions: Who Should Go?
3:30pm Track 1：Jeffery Greenblatt/Design and Modeling of an Electrochemical Device Producing Methane, Oxygen and polyethylene from In-situ resources on Mars
Track 3：Julio Rezende, Davi Souza/Design of Mars Analog habitat: The Case of Habitat Narte (Brazil)
4:00pm Track 1：Gerald Black/SpaceX's Super Heavy and Starship
Track 3：Susan Ip-Jewell,Karan Ghatora, Ashok Narayan-amoorthu, Saran Subba/
Mars Medics Analog Astronaut Missions During Austere I.C.E. - Nepal Scenarios
6:00pm - 9:00pm – MARS ROCKS!
A BENEFIT CONCERT FOR THE MARS SOCIETY This is 21 years of age and over event The Globe Theatre 740 Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90014
MARS ROCKS! is the Mars Society's first ever Benefit Concert featuring the bands
REVOLUSHN and THE HAILERS plus several musical guests from bands like Pink Floyd, DEVO, and Janes Addiction. Come out and join us for an awesome night of Music, Comedy, and SCIENCE.
10月19日
9:00am – Plenary
Carol Stoker, NASA Ames/Drilling for Life on Mars
9:30am - Plenary
Shannon Rupert - Director, Mars Desert Research Station/ 20 Years on Mars
10:30am - Plenary
Kurt Chankaya . The Mars Society/The Mars Society University Rover Challenge
11:00am – Plenary
Anastasiya Stepanova/Institute of Biomedical Problems, Mars Society Russia Comparison of Space Analogue Simulations Mars160 and SIRIUS19
11:30am – Plenary
Ashwin Vasavada, MSL Project Scientist, Planetary Geosciences, JPL/MSL (Curiosity) Rover Update
1:00pm - 5:30pm
Mars Colony Prize Contest の発表があります。
楽しみです！！
17時間の時差があるので、頑張らないと・・・
