| - 2007 - |
| December 19, 2007 | The feature story in the first page of the Events
section of the San Diego Reader is an article titled,
"A NIGHT ON MARS -
ENTHUSIASTS OF THE RED PLANET", which talks about TMS-SD's Mars
Movie Night as well as the human exploration of Mars. |
| July 29, 2007 | TMS-SD's
San Diego Mars Rover was
featured on
KUSI-TV's "Good Morning San Diego" 8:00am Weekend Edition.
(NOTE: requires QuickTime Player,
and is 8.5-MB in size).
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| - 2006 - |
| October 4, 2006 | TMS-SD's
San Diego Mars Rover was
featured on
KUSI-TV's "Good Morning San Diego" at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center for the premier
of the IMAX Film, ROVING MARS.
(NOTE: requires QuickTime Player,
and is 14.6-MB in size). |
| February 2, 2006 | TMS-SD and our
Mars Movie Night was the subject of a
T.G.I.F.
article on page 219 by sci-fi author John Brizzolara for the
San Diego Reader.
|
| - 2005 - |
| October 29, 2005 | TMS-SD was interviewed
by local Fox
Channel 6 News at 10pm regarding the Mars Close Approach. (NOTE: requires
QuickTime Player, and is 2.4-MB in
size). |
| September 9, 2005 | TMS-SD members
recorded a special half-hour program for
"Inside
Southern California" for Adelphia Channel in North County (Carlsbad, CA). We will post it
here as soon as we can get it compressed enough for the web. |
| August 3, 2005 | Several TMS-SD members
Dave Rankin, Tim Sommer and
Gerry Williams participated in taping several
Headline News
segments for Adelphia in San Diego's north county markets. These were run during local breaks on
CNN and CNN Headline News throughout the day. (NOTE: requires
QuickTime Player, and is 5.5-MB in
size). |
| April 16, 2005 | TMS-SD member
Gerry Williams was interviewed, along with Sci-Fi authors
Ben Bova and Arthur C. Clarke as part
of The Norman Bates Memorial Soundtrack program, dealing with the
soundtracks for Mars movies on KFJC 89.7 FM
from the Foothills Community College campus in San Jose, California. Gerry is the webmaster of
the THE MARS MOVIE GUIDE. This program was webcast.
|
| - 2004 - |
| June 17, 2004 | Check out the San
Diego Reader magazine this week for an article on TMS-SD's
monthly Mars Movie Night, and the "Mars
Movie Guide" called,
PLANET CELLULOID - Mars Movie Night. |
| March 23, 2004 | The Mars Society - San
Diego was featured in a news segment in conjunction with NASA's announcement of the
Rover Opportunity confirming the past existence of water on Mars on
XETV Fox
Channel 6 at 10:00pm. (NOTE: requires
QuickTime Player, and is 1.6-MB in
size). |
| February 8, 2004 | DART -
San Diego's Model Rocketry Club held a Model and High-Powered Rocket launch at Fiesta
Island . TMS-SD members were there for public outreach
activities. NBC 7/39 covered the event in their
7:00am
Newscast for 8 minutes. (NOTE: requires
QuickTime Player, and is 11-MB
in size). |
| January 31, 2004 | TMS-SD's
SAN DIEGO MARS ROVER
replica operated outside of the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center from Noon to 3:00pm, in
Balboa Park. Four television crews videotaped the event: XETV Fox 6 on the
10pm News;
NBC 7/39 in both the
6:00pm and the
11:00pm
News; KFMB 8
5:00pm News; and KUSI 9/51
10:00pm
News. (NOTE: videos require
QuickTime Player). -- MORE MEDIA COMING SOON. |
| January 31, 2004 | TMS-SD's
SAN DIEGO MARS ROVER
replica operated outside of the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center from Noon to 3:00pm, in
Balboa Park. Four television crews videotaped the event -- MEDIA COMING SOON.
|
| January 27, 2004 | TMS-SD member Gerry
Williams was interviewed about our
SAN DIEGO MARS ROVER replica
for about 3.5 minutes on the
"My Mornings
with Jagger and Kristi" show on 94.1 FM. |
| January 24, 2004 | Four members of TMS-SD
were invited to view the Mars Exploration Rover
"Opportunity" landing at Malin
Space Science Systems, operators of the Mars Global Surveyor-Mars Orbital Camera, which
was being used as a communications relay from the Martian surface. XETV Fox Channel 6
covered the landing on their 11:00pm news. |
| January 17, 2004 | TMS-SD members
and their radio-controlled Mars Exploration Rover replica were
featured on KFMB-TV Local 8 in the
6:00pm News. (NOTE: requires
QuickTime Player, and is 2.5-MB in size). |
| January 16, 2004 | TMS-SD member
Gerry Williams and Michael Ravine (Advanced Projects Manager at
Malin Space Science Systems) discussed Martian photography
from orbital spacecraft, from the Mars Exploration
Rovers, and at the Mars Society's Mars
Desert Research Station in Utah on Shutterbug Magazine Radio
with wsRadio.com's The Foto Guys, Jack and Howard.
This internet radio show can be heard at
Segment 2 and in
Segment 3 of the
show. NOTE: Requires
Windows Media Player. |
| January 10, 2004 | The Mars Society - San
Diego was featured in a special news segment,
"A VISION OF THE
FUTURE" on XETV Fox Channel 6 at 10:00pm. (NOTE: requires
QuickTime Player, and is 5-MB in
size). |
| January 7, 2004 | Members of TMS-SD
were featured in a
10:00pm News segment on XETV Fox 6. (NOTE: requires
QuickTime Player, and is 2.7-MB in
size). |
| January 5, 2004 | TMS-SD's MDRS Mission
Support was featured in a live broadcast interview by Geni Cavitt for the KGTV-TV
Channel 10 on the
6:30pm News. (NOTE: requires
QuickTime Player, and is 6.8-MB in size). |
| January 5, 2004 | KGTV-TV Channel 10 News website posted
Local Science
Society Simulates Living On Mars, based on the TV news report they taped at our MDRS
Mission Support facility earlier in the day. |
| January 5, 2004 | TMS-SD member
Dave Rankin was featured in studio at KFMB-TV Local 8 News on
the 7:00am
Morning News. (NOTE: requires
QuickTime Player, and is 5.1-MB in size). |
| January 3, 2004 | TMS-SD members
were featured on KFMB-TV Local 8 in the
11:00pm
News. (NOTE: requires QuickTime
Player, and is 4.0-MB in size). |
| January 3, 2004 | TMS-SD members
were featured on KFMB-TV Local 8 in the
6:00pm News.
(NOTE: requires QuickTime Player,
and is 4.4-MB in size). |
| January 3, 2004 | TMS-SD members
were featured on KFMB-TV Local 8 in the
5:00pm News.
(NOTE: requires QuickTime Player,
and is 4.6-MB in size). |
| January 3, 2004 | The NASA/JPL
Mars Exploration Rover named
"Spirit" landed successfully at Gusev Crater near the
Martian equator, a site that shows powerful evidence of past liquid water -- Gusev may have
once been a lake.
|
| - 2003 - |
| December 19, 2003 | Dave Rankin
was featured on Ken Johanssen's "Two o'Clock Show" on KPQ 560
AM News-Talk Radio for 25 minutes regarding the Mars Society and Mars Exploration, both
robotic and human. |
| September 4, 2003 | TMS-SD members
were featured in "My Grand Kids Went To
Mars And All I Got Was A Lousy T-shirt" in the Fahrenheit - San Diego Independent
Weekly magazine. |
| August 27, 2003 | The The San
Diego Astronomy Association (SDAA) hosted a free
Mars Opposition Viewing
at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center in Balboa Park.
TMS-SD members were there for media and public outreach
activitiesfrom 4:30pm to 1:00am. TMS-SD members interviewed
by two television stations, KFMB Channel 8 and KUSI Channel 9/51. |
| August 27, 2003 | TMS-SD members
were featured in
"Nearness of Mars has the Heavenly Set Excited" in the North County Times newspaper.
|
| August 27, 2003 | TMS-SD members
were featured in "Allure of the Red Planet
Beckons Local Enthusiasts" in the San Diego City Beat magazine. |
| July 11, 2003 | In The Spacefaring Web
3.13 article by John Carter McKnight
Should America Rule the Heavens? is based upon "Perhaps the best, most thought-
provoking question I've been asked in over two years of writing this column came from
The Mars Society-San Diego's co-founder, Dave Rankin.
Rankin directly challenged one of the fundamental tenets of this column. |
| June 5, 2003 | TMS-SD's Dave Rankin
was interviewed on
THE GLENN MITCHELL SHOW radio program KERA 90.1, Public Broadcasting for North Texas.
"The moon. Been there, done that. So when are we going to Mars? ThatŐs what the members of
the Mars Society want to know. TheyŐre an international space advocacy organization with
members on every continent except Antarctica. Their goal is to further human exploration of
the Red Planet, and they have their own plan for manned mission to Mars." |
| June 1, 2003 | TMS-SD's
Dave Rankin was the special guest on "THE
WARP ZONE" radio program regarding The Mars Society, their
Analog habitats program, and sending humans to the Red Planet. |
| April 26, 2003 | TMS-SD's
Dave Rankin was the special guest on
Radio Sci Fi on AM 580 WDBO News-Talk Radio in Orlando, Florida. |
| Spring, 2003 |
Samsung's DigitALL Magazine covered the Sally Ride Science Festival
in Balboa Park last Februay, and their article made mention of the representatives of
The Mars Society from the San Diego chapter, who crewed a
display table there on February 22, 2003. |
| February 18, 2003 | KPBS-FM's "THESE DAYS" radio
program hosted TMS-SD member Shannon Rupert Robles and SDSU Geology Professor Gary Peterson
in a discussion of Mars, Mars exploration, and humans to Mars. |
| February 12, 2003 | The Spacefaring Web 3.04
published an article called "A Challenge To Space Leadership" onwww.SpaceDaily.com
that mentioned TMS-SD's MDRS as being "...in the midst of a media blitz of unparalleled
professionalism, with a positive, inspirational message of ordinary folks taking
responsibility for the future and moving into real action." |
| February 10, 2003 | The San Diego Metropolitan
published an article (with photograph) of TMS-SD's Mission Support activities. The article
is about 1/4 down the page, in a box -- you can't miss it!). |
| February 9, 2003 |
TMS-SD on Fox Channel 6 News - TMS-SD members were interviewed by
Fox 6 News
regarding The Mars Society's Desert Research Station and San Diego's Mission Support
activities (requires QuickTime
and is 1.5-MB in size). |
| February 8, 2003 | The North County Times -
Oceanside Edition ran an article (with photograph) on TMS-SD's Mission Support
activities. |
| February 2, 2003 | TMS-SD on KGTV Channel
10 News - TMS-SD members were interviewed by reporter Nina Jimenez from
Channel 10 News
regarding The Mars Society's Desert Research Station, San Diego's Mission Support
activities, and the Columbia disaster (requires QuickTime and is 3.7-MB in size).
|
| February 2, 2003 | The San Diego Mayor's office released a
Proclaimation designating February 2 - 8 as
MARS SOCIETY WEEK IN SAN DIEGO. |
| January 31, 2003 | The North County Times -
Escondido Edition ran an article on TMS-SD's Mission Support activities. |
| January 29, 2003 | The La Jolla
Village News ran an article (with pictures) on TMS-SD's Mission Support activities.
|
| January 28, 2003 |
THE PRIDE, the student newspaper of Cal State - San Marcos ran an article called
"MARS ON EARTH" regarding MDRS and San Diego's month of Mission Support.
|
| - 2002 - |
| April 14, 2002 |
TMS-SD on KUSI-TV News - TMS-SD members were interviewed by
KUSI Channel 51
News regarding The Mars Society's Desert Research Station and San Diego's Mission
Support activities (2.7-MB in size and requires
QuickTime). |
| April 10, 2002 | The San Diego
Union-Tribune ran an article on TMS-SD's MDRS and our Mission Support activities.
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