Mars Society Puget Sound

The Mars Society
Seattle / Puget Sound Chapter Website
Our sympathies go out to all those injured in the terrible acts perpetrated in NY and DC on September 11, 2001!

Chris Vancil, President
Randy Rumley, Vice President
None Elected, Secretary
David Stuart, Treasurer

Chris Vancil, (past) National Liaison *
Randy Rumley, Editor, Sojourner

* Chris served in the Mars Society Chapters Council as the Washington State Representative.

Chris, David, and Randy are also officers in NSS Seattle, our sister organization.

Chapter Website:

Chapter News
Project Status
Mars Books/Videos for Sale
Convention Reports

Members Only!
(access required)

Chapter Officers
Meeting Schedule
Meeting Minutes
First Chapter Elections

Mars Society Sites:

MarsSociety.org
  Chapter Listing
  Chapters Council
  Ares CD-Rom Task Force
  Arctic Base Project

MarsNews.com
Mars Open Directory

MarsFest
Mars Polar Lander mirror
New Mars Journal

Sister Organizations & Sites:

NSS Seattle
Seattle Moon Society

National Space Society
Artemis Society International
Space Frontier Foundation
The Planetary Society

Space Connection (a space website run by our ex-prez)

Mars Art Gallery

Click any image below for a larger view

A rendering of our planned
Mars Arctic Research Station (MARS)

A human Mars base as it would look using the Mars Direct Plan

35 years after it landed on the red plains of Utopia Planitia, the Viking 2 Lander is visited by the first human explorers in 2011

The wildly successful Mars Pathfinder mission explored the Ares Vallis region in 1997

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The Mars Society
Seattle / Puget Sound Chapter

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About the Mars Society Puget Sound

Welcome! We are the Seattle / Puget Sound area chapter of the international Mars Society, also known as the Mars Society Puget Sound!

About the Mars Society

The Mars Society was founded in August 1998 and is an international organization dedicated to furthering the goal of the exploration and settlement of the Red Planet.

This will be done by:

Broad public outreach to instill the vision of pioneering Mars.
Support of ever more aggressive government-funded Mars exploration programs around the world.
Conducting Mars exploration on a private basis.

The Mars Society is a non-profit tax-exempt 501(c)(3) charitable organization in the United States. Our federal tax identification number is 31-1585646. Donations to the Mars Society are tax deductible. Our chapter has separate finances and is in the process of incorporating as a 501(c)(3) organization in the state of Washington.

Monthly Chapter Meeting

Our chapter meetings, held on the third Saturday of every month, are always open to the public and new members welcome.

Next Few Meetings in 2008:
Usually meetings starting at 2 PM and go to about 5 PM

On Saturday, 21st of June 2008 we will be meeting Noon to 2PM at Crossroads Mall(156th Ave. NE. and NE 8th Street)in the food court.

Saturday July 19th most likely at the Bellevue Regional Library

Saturday August 16th most of us officers will be in Boulder, CO at the Mars Society Meeting.

(see below) Bellevue Regional Library 1111 110th Ave NE, Bellevue (425) 462-9600

If you subscribe to Marspuget-subscribe@yahoogroups.com you would get a notice by email

At each meeting we talk about our chapters projects, UW Translife and the building of our version of an improved Analog Spacesuit. We usually meet at the Bellevue Regional Library (check at the information desk for the room number).

[Image of Randy in spacesuit at Norwescon 25]

We will be discussing our current projects and upcoming local events we'd like to participate in. New members are always welcome, we especially need students from UW and interested space enthusiasts all over the Puget sound region!

Typical Agenda

Call to Order

New Member Introduction

Spacesuit Project

Upcoming Events (Convention)

Education / Outreach

Political Action

Brainstorm / Other

Adjourn

"Executive Committee" Meetings

A few of us also meet weekly at our favorite watering hole. We talk about chapter business, but also about space exploration and other subjects. Everybody is welcome to join us, but bring a thirst for cheap ale!

Tuesday nights at 7 PM (some get there at 6:30)
Barnaby's in Tukwila
Map & Directions

Chapter News & Project Status

Upcoming Events

MarsFest '04 - January 10th 2004 - At the Museum of Flight.-
Mars Society 2004 Convention - August 2004 - Chicago, Illinois - the seveth annual Mars Society convention.

Monthly Meeting Presentations
Public Outreach Events

Past Years Events

In January 2000, Dustin Green spoke at the RustyCon "R2K" convention about Mars Direct to an audience of 5-6 people, in an early morning talk. Jim Burk's scheduled talk on Robotic Mars Exploration was accidentally left off the schedule by convention organizers.

On December 3rd, 1999, Our chapter held Seattle MarsFest '99 at the Boeing Museum of Flight, and helped other chapters publicize their events by maintaining the MarsFest.org website. These events coincided with the (failed) landing of the Mars Polar Lander and Deep Space 2 Microprobes.

Political Action
We are currently doing a letter writing campaign to Save NASA's budget from the billion dollar cuts. There is no current Political Action coordinator & committee chairman. See our Political Action page for more information.

MarsNews.com
MarsNews.com was recently relaunched! The new site is streamlined and also added a few new features. Two of our freinds and members run the site -- Jim Burk designed the site and is Editor-in-Chief and Dustin Green serves as Assistant Editor. MarsNews.com has won numerous awards including being named as one of the 50 best Science & Technology websites by Popular Science Magazine.

Education/Outreach
A chapter committee has been formed to oversee our Student Essay Contest, membership drives, brochures, and general outreach. Dustin Green is our Education/Outreach coordinator. See our Education/Outreach page for more information.

Displays
This committee will oversee building of displays and models. Current projects are to come up with an easily transportable convention display as well as some Mars Direct models -- both of which we may soon offer to sell to other chapters. Chris Vancil is our display committee chairman.

Technical
A chapter commitee headed by Randy Rumley has been formed to oversee future technical projects.

Materials For Sale

We produce the Ares CD-Rom title and also sell it through the chapter. You can order past and future issues online directly from us.

Our chapter is offering several of the most popular Mars Books for sale at a discounted rate. We offer the popular National Geographic book Mars: Uncovering the Secrets of the Red Planet which includes several 3D images and 3D glasses, Society President Robert Zubrin's groundbreaking book The Case for Mars and related video Mars Direct, and Mars Pathfinder project leader Donna Shirley's book Managing Martians.

All proceeds from the sale of these books go towards programs which promote Mars exploration and the goals of the Society. Please buy one today!

Seattle MarsFest '99

On Friday, December 3rd Seattle MarsFest '99 was held at the Boeing Museum of Flight. It went very well and over 300 people showed up (we're still awaiting the official attendance from the Museum) But of course, the Mars Polar Lander -- our "guest of honor" -- failed to contact us here on Earth.

Saturday in the Seattle Times there was a short article about the event on page A15 titled "Earthlings party fades when Mars fails to show". It was written by Eric Sorensen.

Thanks go out to The Planetary Society, NSS Seattle, the Museum of Flight, UW Professor Jim Tillman, and everybody else who helped us with this event.