

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

PACIFIC D 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