{"id":16100,"date":"2018-05-29T11:03:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T15:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16100"},"modified":"2018-05-29T11:03:51","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T15:03:51","slug":"the-21st-annual-international-mars-society-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16100","title":{"rendered":"The 21st Annual International Mars Society Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marssociety.org\/conventions\/21st-annual-international-mars-society-convention\/\">21st Annual International Mars Society Convention<\/a>\u00a0will be held this year<\/span> in\u00a0Pasadena, California,\u00a0August 23-26, 2018.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>The four-day International Mars Society Convention brings together leading scientists, engineers, aerospace industry representatives, government policymakers and journalists to talk about the latest scientific discoveries, technological advances and political-economic developments that could help pave the way for a human mission to the planet Mars.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marssociety.org\/conventions\/21st-annual-international-mars-society-convention\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"16101\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=16101\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/2018Convention.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"351,539\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2018 Convention\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/2018Convention.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16101 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/2018Convention.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"351\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/2018Convention.jpg 351w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/2018Convention-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 351px) 100vw, 351px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marssociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/MarsSociety-21st-conference-flyer.pdf\">Conference Flyer<\/a>\u00a0lists the wide variety of sessions with something for anyone with an interest in Mars, regardless of technical or non-technical background:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marssociety.org\/conventions\/21st-annual-international-mars-society-convention\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"16102\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=16102\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/2018ConventionSessions.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"801,466\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2018 Convention Sessions\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/2018ConventionSessions.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16102\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/2018ConventionSessions.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/2018ConventionSessions.jpg 801w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/2018ConventionSessions-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/2018ConventionSessions-768x447.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mars Society founder and President\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Zubrin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Zubrin<\/a> recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2017\/05\/nasa-lunar-orbit-space-station-terrible-idea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>From a technical point of view, we are much closer today to sending humans to Mars than we were to sending men to the Moon in 1961, and we were there eight years later.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Go to the conference to understand the justification for that statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">====<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?o=1&amp;p=12&amp;l=ur1&amp;category=amzn_basics_elctnics&amp;banner=10PFV81ZPVCWKXE6S9G2&amp;f=ifr&amp;linkID=caaa70725fb7c5b929777e8413b07b34&amp;t=hobbyspace&amp;tracking_id=hobbyspace\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a021st Annual International Mars Society Convention\u00a0will be held this year in\u00a0Pasadena, California,\u00a0August 23-26, 2018. The four-day International Mars Society Convention brings together leading scientists, engineers, aerospace industry representatives, government policymakers and journalists to talk about the latest scientific discoveries, technological advances and political-economic developments that could help pave the way for a human mission to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16100\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The 21st Annual International Mars Society Conference<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,78,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-mars","category-space-participation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-4bG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16606,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16606","url_meta":{"origin":16100,"position":0},"title":"The 21st Annual Mars Society Conference in Pasadena this weekend","author":"TopSpacer","date":"August 22, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The\u00a021st\u00a0Annual International Mars Society Convention\u00a0starts tomorrow in Pasadena, California and will last through Sunday.\u00a0 Check out the schedule (pdf) packed with keynote talks and multiple parallel session tracks.\u00a0There are over 40 different sessions listed in the Conference flyer (pdf). 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