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May 18 2021 AIAA Long Island Section Meeting with guest speaker Bob Zubrin founder of the Mars Society on Human Mars Exploration & Colonization / Humans to the Red Planet within a Decade"

  • 1.  May 18 2021 AIAA Long Island Section Meeting with guest speaker Bob Zubrin founder of the Mars Society on Human Mars Exploration & Colonization / Humans to the Red Planet within a Decade"

    Posted 25 Apr, 2021 07:34
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                                                                                                                                       AIAA Zoom Section Meeting





                                                                                                                                         Thursday, May 18, 2021

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                                                                                                                                  AIAA Distinguished Lecturer

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                                                                                         "Destination Mars: Human Mars Exploration & Colonization / Humans
                                                                                                                         to the Red Planet within a Decade"



                                                                                                                               RESERVATIONS REQUIRED

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    Please do not RSVP by replying to this thread. Please RSVP by emailing   Dave Paris at   davidsparis@twc.com

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    Location: Zoom Meeting online

    Link will be sent to those who register



    Time: 6:40 PM Social Time

    7:00 PM Presentation





    Cost: Free for Everyone





    In July 1989, on the 20th anniversary of the Apollo Moon landing, the first President Bush called for America to
    renew its pioneering push into space with the establishment of a permanent Lunar base and a series of human
    missions to Mars. While many have said that such an endeavor would be excessively costly and take many
    decades, a small team at Martin Marietta drew up a daring plan that could sharply cut costs and send a group of
    American astronauts to the Red Planet within ten years. The plan, known as "Mars Direct," has attracted
    international attention and broad controversy, including coverage in such publications as Newsweek, Fortune, The
    Economist, Air and Space Smithsonian, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the London Times, the
    Boston Globe and Izvestia. It has also been covered by the Discovery Channel, PBS, ABC, NBC, CBS, National
    Public Radio, and the BBC. Its principal author, Robert Zubrin, has presented it to such fora as the International
    Astronautical Federation congress in Germany, and the blue ribbon "Synthesis Group" headed by former Apollo
    astronaut General Thomas Stafford, the Augustine Committee, as well as to various government officials,
    including House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Senator John McCain, and NASA Administrators Dan Goldin, Mike
    Griffin, and Charles Bolden.

    More relevant than ever: Can Americans reach the Red Planet in our time?



    Robert Zubrin, formerly a Staff Engineer at Lockheed Martin Astronautics in Denver is now president of his own
    company, Pioneer Astronautics. He holds Masters degrees in Nuclear Engineering and in Aeronautics and
    Astronautics and a doctorate in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Washington. He is the inventor of
    several unique concepts for space propulsion and exploration, the author of over 200 published technical and non-
    technical papers in the field, as well the non-fiction books "The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet
    and Why We Must" (Simon and Schuster 1996), "Entering Space" (Tarcher Putnam 1999), "Mars on Earth"
    (Tarcher Penguin 2003) and "Energy Victory" (Prometheus Books, 2007). He is also the author of the novels
    "The Holy Land," (Polaris Books, 2003) and "First Landing," (Ace 2001), and most recently, the science-humor
    immigrant guidebook, "How to Live on Mars" (Three Rivers Press, 2008). He is a Fellow of the British
    Interplanetary Society and former Chairman of the Executive Committee of the National Space Society. Most
    recently, he founded the Mars Society, an international organization dedicated to furthering the exploration and
    settlement of Mars by both public and private means. In that capacity, he personally led the construction and
    operation of a human Mars exploration training station on Devon Island, an uninhabited island in the Canadian
    Arctic 900 miles from the North Pole. Prior to his work in astronautics, Dr. Zubrin was employed in areas of
    thermonuclear fusion research, nuclear engineering, radiation protection, and as a high school science teacher.



    Directions: Click on the link in the meeting invitation you will receive after signing up for the meeting.

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    Gregory Homatas
    Vice Chair AIAA Long Island Section
    greghomatas@gmail.com
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