{"id":16622,"date":"2018-08-25T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16622"},"modified":"2018-08-24T12:57:16","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T16:57:16","slug":"video-robert-zubrin-opens-the-21st-annual-mars-society-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16622","title":{"rendered":"Video: Robert Zubrin opens the 21st Annual Mars Society convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marssociety.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mars Society<\/a> founder and president Robert\u00a0<span class=\"scayt-misspell-word\" data-scayt-word=\"Zubrin's\" data-wsc-lang=\"en_US\">Zubrin gives a vigorous presentation\u00a0<\/span>opening\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marssociety.org\/conventions\/2018\/\" target=\"_d\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.marssociety.org\/conventions\/2018\/\"><span class=\"scayt-misspell-word\" data-scayt-word=\"21st\" data-wsc-lang=\"en_US\">21st<\/span>\u00a0Annual International Mars Society Convention<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cJCenuebAa8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/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=electronics&amp;f=ifr&amp;linkID=b9b6bdfedae91c076b1ee00a49031c97&amp;t=hobbyspace&amp;tracking_id=hobbyspace\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mars Society founder and president Robert\u00a0Zubrin gives a vigorous presentation\u00a0opening\u00a0the\u00a021st\u00a0Annual International Mars Society Convention: ==== &nbsp;<\/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":[3,78,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-mars","category-space-settlement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-4k6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16100,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16100","url_meta":{"origin":16622,"position":0},"title":"The 21st Annual International Mars Society Conference","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 29, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The\u00a021st Annual International Mars Society Convention\u00a0will be held this year in\u00a0Pasadena, California,\u00a0August 23-26, 2018. 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