| to find blue
hope just scratch the red surface -- Bettina Davis May 2002 |
THE MARS SOCIETY - SAN DIEGO | |
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"The Earth is the Cradle of Mankind, but one does not live in the cradle forever." -- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, 1895 | |
| December 30, 2006 | Fiesta Island's Over-the-Line field in Mission Bay
hosted a Model Rocket Launch event by the Diego Area Rocket
Team (D.A.R.T.) from 8:00am to noon. There was no official TMS-SD participation, but TMS-SD members were both watching and launching rockets. |
December 15, 2006 | TMS-SD MARS MOVIE NIGHT -- "ASSIGNMENT: OUTER SPACE" (1961). |
| December 8, 2006 | The next REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING of TMS-SD was our "Holiday Party" at the Acapulco Restaurant in Old Town. |
| December 7, 2006 | TMS-SD and the
San Diego Mars Rover
participated at Rosa Parks
Elementary as part of a Star Gazing Night from 5 to 8 pm. |
| November 19, 2006 | Reach for the Stars at the Sally Ride Science Festival at University of California San Diego (UCSD) -- TMS-SD participated in this event with with our interactive display table and the San Diego Mars Rover. |
November 17, 2006
| TMS-SD MARS MOVIE NIGHT -- "LOBSTER MAN FROM MARS"
(1989). |
| November 15, 2006 | TMS-SD presented a free public lecture, "Humans to Mars - How we'll Get There" at the Balboa Branch Library. |
| November 10, 2006 | The REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING
of TMS-SD offered a multimedia public lecture, "TEN YEARS OVER MARS",
with Dr. Michael Caplinger, Senior Scientist at Malin Space
Science Systems.
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| November 8, 2006 | TMS-SD presented a free public lecture, "Mars on Earth - The Adventures of Space Pioneers in the Utah Desert" at the Balboa Branch Library. |
| November 1, 2006 | TMS-SD presented a
free public lecture, "Mars Exploration Rovers - Year 2" at the
Balboa Branch Library. |
| October 28, 2006 | The Reuben H. Fleet Science Center's "Weekend Program" featured "Mars From Above" with Dr. Ken Edgett, Staff Scientist at Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS), the local company that designed, built and operates cameras for all three U.S. spacecraft currently orbiting Mars. TMS-SD participated in this event with with our display table and the San Diego Mars Rover. |
October 27, 2006
| TMS-SD MARS MOVIE NIGHT -- "JUST IMAGINE" (1930). |
| October 21, 2006 | The Reuben H. Fleet Science Center in Balboa Park featured Family Science Days with Astronaut Sally Ride at the Fleet for the San Diego release of her book, "Mystery of Mars". TMS-SD participated in this event with with our display table and the San Diego Mars Rover. |
| October 20-21, 2006 | The X-Prize Cup took place in in Las Cruces, New Mexico. No TMS-SD participation in this event, however many members attended. |
| October 14, 2006 | The Reuben H. Fleet Science Center's "Weekend Program" featured a Mars Rover Update with one of the leading engineers behind NASA/JPL's Mars Exploration Rovers, Nagin Cox. TMS-SD participated in this event with with our display table and the San Diego Mars Rover. |
| October 13, 2006 | The REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING of TMS-SD was cancelled due to other commitments by all key members -- Sorry. |
| October 5, 2006 | The San Diego Science Alliance hosted the Third Annual Robo Expo at the San Diego Natural History Museum in Balboa Park, in conjunction with their current exhibitDinosaurs: Reel & Robotic. TMS-SD members were there with the San Diego Mars Rover. |
| 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). |
| October 3, 2006 | The Reuben H. Fleet Science Center in Balboa Park hosted a members-only sneak-peek event for the IMAX Film, ROVING MARS. TMS-SD members were there for the activities from 5:30pm to 8:30pm with the San Diego Mars Rover. |
| September 29- October 1, 2006 | The Fifth Conjecture, an annual San Diego area convention devoted to all things science-fiction and fantasy took over the Red Lion Hanalei Hotel in Mission Valley for the weekend. TMS-SD was there for public outreach activities with our display table, and participated in several programming events: "Mars Exploration Rovers - Year 2", "Mars on Earth - The Adventures of Space Pioneers in the Utah Desert" and "Humans to Mars - How We'll Get There". |
| September 29 to Sunday October 1, 2006 | The Fifth Conjecture, an annual San Diego area convention devoted to all things science-fiction and fantasy took over the Red Lion Hanalei Hotel in Mission Valley for the weekend. TMS-SD were there for public outreach activities and several programming events. |
September 15, 2006 | TMS-SD MARS MOVIE NIGHT -- "CRIMSON FORCE" (2005). |
September 8, 2006 | The REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING of TMS-SD was held at the San Diego Air & Space Museum in Balboa Park. This evening's Guest Lecture, Discussion and Book Signing Program was: "SEX IN SPACE", by author Laura S. Woodmansee. |
| September 6, 2006 | The San Diego Astronomy
Association (SDAA) hosted their
"STARS IN THE PARK"
public telescope viewing event outside the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center in Balboa Park. |
| August 23 to August 27, 2006 | The 64th World Science Fiction Convention -- WORLDCON/L.A.CON IV, the world's foremost science fiction convention was held in Anaheim, CA. TMS-SD set up our display table and gave four Mars-related programming events: "MARS ON EARTH -- ADVENTURES OF SPACE PIONEERS IN THE UTAH DESERT", "MARS EXPLORATION ROVERS -- YEAR 2", "HOW WE'LL GET THERE--HUMANS TO MARS" and "MARS IN THE MOVIES". We also ran our San Diego Mars Rover around the Exhibit Hall -- the kids (of all ages) loved it! |
August 19, 2006 | TMS-SD MARS MOVIE NIGHT -- "WORLD WITHOUT END" (1956). |
| August 11, 2006 | The REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING of TMS-SD -- Summer Barbecue Social Potluck Event was held at Dave Rankin's house in Hillcrest. No business was conducted, just fun! |
| August 5, 2006 | TMS-SD and their Mars Rover, Analog Mars Suit and interactive display table participated at the PROJECT ASTRO Summer Teacher's/Astronomer's Workshop . |
| August 2, 2006 | The San Diego Astronomy Association (SDAA) hosted their "STARS IN THE PARK" public telescope viewing event outside the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center in Balboa Park. |
| August 1, 2006 | OASIS,
a unique educational program for mature adults who want to continue to learn and be productive
during the best years of their lives, offered the following class: HUMANS
TO MARS: HOW WE'LL GET THERE!Mars Society member Gerry Williams
took a look at all the current plans for exploring and eventually colonizing Mars. |
July 28, 2006 | TMS-SD MARS MOVIE NIGHT -- DOUBLE FEATURE! -- "IT! THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE" (1958) and "NEGADON - THE MONSTER FROM MARS" (2005). |
| July 14, 2006 | The Mars Society - San
Diego in cooperation with the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center
hosted an evening of "TETHERS IN SPACE" with Joe
Carroll, of Tether Applications. The minutes of our July 2006 meeting in PowerPoint Show (.pps) format. |
| July 11, 2006 | TMS-SD, along with the San Diego Mars Rover, provided a 2-hour Mars Exploration lecture at the Santa Sophia Academy in Spring Valley. |
| July 5, 2006 | The San Diego Astronomy Association (SDAA) hosted their "STARS IN THE PARK" public telescope viewing event outside the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center in Balboa Park. |
| July 1 to July 4, 2006 | The West's premiere Science Fantasy
Conference, Conzilla/Westercon 59 took over the San Diego
Marriott Mission Valley for the Independence Weekend. TMS-SD was
there for public outreach activities with our display table and several programming events,
including "Mars Exploration Rovers Year 2" and
"Humans to Mars" panels, the multimedia "Mars
in the Movies", a special screening of "Destination: Mars!"
and a 24-hour Mars Movie Marathon.
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| June 28, 2006 | TMS-SD members took the San Diego Mars Rover to the Elementary Institute of Science for two classes and some hands-on experience with robotic Martian exploration. |
| June 20, 2006 | OASIS, a unique educational program for mature adults who want to continue to learn and be productive during the best years of their lives, offered the following class: MARS EXPLORATION ROVERS--YEAR 2 -- NASA's two Mars Exploration Rovers have been traveling the red planet for over two years now. Each Rover has inspected over four miles of red sand and rock, craters and dunes, looking for evidence of water. Mars Society member Gerry Williams gave a tour of Mars by way of the twin Rovers' points-of-view. |
June 16, 2006 | TMS-SD MARS MOVIE NIGHT -- THE NEW OUTER LIMITS - "THE SAND-KINGS" (1995). |
| June 15, 2006 | The San Diego Aerospace Museum's "Fly By Night" film was "Apollo 13". |
| June 10, 2006 | In the second of a two part series on the
human exploration of our neighboring worlds, the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center's
Weekend Talk Series
features Onward To Mars -- It has been 34 years since a
person walked on the moon -- now it's time for us to walk on Mars! Join members of
The Mars Society-San Diego for a multimedia look at current
scenarios for human exploration of the Red Planet. Compare plans from NASA, Europe, Russia, Mars
Society and others for opening up the final frontier to human exploration and colonization of
Mars. At 1:00pm in the Lecture Hall. TMS-SD members were also there with the San Diego Mars Rover and an interactive display table. |
| June 9, 2006 | The minutes of our June 2006 meeting -- COMING SOON. |
| June 7, 2006 | The San Diego Astronomy Association (SDAA) hosted their "STARS IN THE PARK" public telescope viewing event outside the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center in Balboa Park. TMS-SD partication was cancelled due to weather. |
| June 3, 2006 | The Reuben H. Fleet Science Center's Weekend Talk Series features Return to the Moon -- In this family-friendly presentation for ages 7 and up, astronomer Dr. Philip Blanco will guide us through some fun activities to show how big and how far the Moon really is (you may be surprised), how to observe the Moon from Earth, and what it would be like to go there. On the way, we shall relive the highlights of past missions, and look at some of the future plans in the works for lunar exploration and settlement. Part one of a two part series on the human exploration of our neighboring worlds. |
| June 3, 2006 | Fiesta Island's Over-the-Line field in Mission Bay
hosted a Model Rocket Launch event by Diego
Area Rocket Team (D.A.R.T.) from 8:00am to noon. |
| May 20 & 21, 2006 | The annual JPL Open House was great! |
May 19, 2006 | TMS-SD MARS MOVIE NIGHT -- PAJAMA PARTY (1964) -- AKA, "The Maid and the Martian". |
| May 14, 2006 | The Reuben H. Fleet Science Center showcased the San Diego Mars Rover. |
| May 14, 2006 | Fiesta Island's Over-the-Line field in Mission Bay hosted a Model Rocket Launch event by Diego Area Rocket Team (D.A.R.T.). |
| May 12, 2006 | The Mars Society - San
Diego in cooperation with the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center
hosted an evening of "COMMERCIAL HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT: FASTER, BETTER,
CHEAPER" with Jim Benson, of SpaceDev,
Inc.. The minutes of our May 2006 meeting in PowerPoint Show (.pps) format. |
| May 12, 2006 | The MDRS 2005-2006 Field Season wraped up. The Mars Society begins readying for its 2006 Summer Season at the FMARS facility in the Canadian arctic in July 2006. |
| May 6, 2006 | The Mars Society's Mars Desert Research Station concluded its 5th Field Season in the Utah desert with a one-week mission by Crew 50 from Penn State University. You can find out what happened there by checking out the 2006 Field Season - Daily Reports & Photos. |
| May 6, 2006 | The TMS-SD celebrated Space Day in Balboa Park by setting up our interactive display table and running the San Diego Mars Rover at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center in Balboa Park from 10:00am to 1:00pm; and then over to the San Diego Aerospace Museum from 1:00pm to 4:00pm. |
| May 4th-7th, 2006 | The 25th annual International Space Development Conference (ISDC) featured dozens of presentations, panel discussions, interactive exhibits and activities spanning the entire spectrum of space-related issues: exploration, tourism, science, technology, policy, and commerce. |
| May 3, 2006 | The San Diego Astronomy
Association (SDAA) hosted their
"STARS IN THE PARK"
public telescope viewing event outside the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center in Balboa Park.
TMS-SD partication was cancelled due to weather. |
| April 27, 2006 | TMS-SD members took the San Diego Mars Rover out for a classroom visit at Diegueño Country School in Del Mar. |
| April 23, 2006 | The Mars Society's Mars Desert Research Station continued its fifth season in the Utah desert near Capitol Reef National Park with a two week adventure with Crew 49 by members of the NASA/Ames Mobile Agent's Project. |
April 21, 2006 | TMS-SD MARS MOVIE NIGHT -- "SPACE: ABOVE AND BEYOND" (1995-96). |
| April 15, 2006 | The Reuben H. Fleet Science Center's Weekend Talk Series featured Mars Recon! JPL/NASA Spies on the Red Planet -- The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter entered orbit around the red planet in March 2006 and JPL Solar System Ambassador Jay Lavine gave a JPL/NASA update. TMS-SD members were there with the San Diego Mars Rover. |
| April 13, 2006 | The REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING of
TMS-SD was held at
Grossmont College. The
program featured two Moon-related events: David Schrunk, a former aerospace engineer and founder of the Science of Laws Institute in San Diego, talked about how "A hundred years from now, expect to see a fully inhabited sister planet of Earth. People will be living on the moon permanently, a by-product of a multi-phase effort to create what is called the new "Planet Moon Project." TMS-SD member Gerry Williams discussed the Moon Society's Artemis Moonbase Sim-1 lunar simulation at The Mars Society's Mars Desert Research Station in the Utah desert. Gerry was the primary Mission Support CapCOM for this simulated lunar excursion. The minutes of our April 2006 meeting in PowerPoint Show (.pps) format. |
| April 12, 2006 | Yuri's Night World Space Party celebrated the anniversary of the first human in space, Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. TMS-SD celebrated this event locally at the Acapulco Restaurant in Old Town San Diego. |
| April 5, 2006 | The San Diego Astronomy Association (SDAA) hosted their "STARS IN THE PARK" public telescope viewing event outside the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center in Balboa Park. TMS-SD partication was cancelled due to weather. |
| April 2, 2006 | The Mars Society's Mars Desert Research Station continued its fifth season in the Utah desert near Capitol Reef National Park with a three week adventure with Crew 48 by members of the Mars Society - Austria. |
| April 1, 2006 | The Reuben H. Fleet Science Center presented
"Dome Day!" -- For one day only, special screenings
galore of the newest films and the latest technology presented on the world's first IMAX Dome
Screen, including three screenings of Disney's spectacular IMAX film,
ROVING MARS.
TMS-SD members were there with the
San Diego Mars Rover |
| March 25, 2006 | Fiesta Island's Over-the-Line field in Mission Bay hosted a Model Rocket Launch event by Diego Area Rocket Team (D.A.R.T.). |
| March 22, 2006 | The San Diego Science Alliance presented the 2006 High Tech Fair at the Del Mar Fairgrounds |
| March 19, 2006 | The Mars Society's Mars Desert Research Station continued its fifth season in the Utah desert near Capitol Reef National Park with a two week adventure with Crew 47 by Georgia Tech. |
March 17, 2006 | TMS-SD MARS MOVIE NIGHT -- "PROJECT VIPER" (2002). |
| March 12, 2006 | The Mars Society's Mars Desert Research Station continued its fifth season in the Utah desert near Capitol Reef National Park with a one week adventure with Crew 46 from the Mars Society-Arizona chapters. |
| March 12, 2006 | Fiesta Island's Over-the-Line field in Mission Bay hosted a Model Rocket Launch event by Diego Area Rocket Team (D.A.R.T.). |
| March 11, 2006 | TMS-SD took our our San Diego Mars Rover out to the "San Diego Aerospace Museum's Family Day" in Balboa Park. |
| March 10, 2006 | Here are the minutes of our March 2006 meeting in PowerPoint Show (.pps) format. |
| March 10, 2006 | The Mars
Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft went into Mars orbit today and begin six months of
aerobraking to reach its science orbit.
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| March 3, 2006 | TMS-SD member Gerry Williams was the keynote speaker at a Pack #678 Cub Scout Blue and Gold Banquet in Ramona, with our Interactive Display Table and our San Diego Mars Rover |
| March 3-5, 2006 | TMS-SD
participated in the ConDor XIII Sci-Fi Convention
in Mission Valley. We had a display table, as well as several presentations during the
convention: "Mars Exploration Rovers, Year 2: They Keep On Going and Going and Going ...", with Gerry Williams, Dave Rankin and Jeff Berkwits; Dave and Gerry are joined by Sci-Fi authors Todd McCaffrey, and Vernor Vinge, and science writer Jonathan Vos Post for a discussion panel on "Exploiting the Solar System". "Mars Desert Research Station, Season 5" with Dave and Gerry. |
| March 1, 2006 | The San Diego Astronomy
Association (SDAA) hosted their
"STARS IN THE PARK"
public telescope viewing event outside the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center in Balboa Park.
TMS-SD partication was cancelled due to weather. |
| February 26, 2006 | The Mars Society's
Mars Desert Research Station continued
its fifth season in the Utah desert with a two week adventure of Crew
45 by the Moon Society.
TMS-SD provided the primary Mission Support
CapCOM duty for this crew. |
| February 26, 2006 | TMS-SD's ANNUAL ANNIVERSARY PIZZA PARTY was held at the southern Killer Pizza From Mars in Escondido. Congratulations to Jesse Clark, winner of our Martian of the Year" award. |
| February 25, 2006 | Fiesta Island's Over-the-Line field in Mission Bay will hosted a Model Rocket Launch event by Diego Area Rocket Team (D.A.R.T.). |
February 17, 2006 | TMS-SD MARS MOVIE NIGHT -- "DOOM" (2005). |
| February 12, 2006 | TMS-SD participated
in "Reach for the Stars" with the
Sally Ride Science
Festival at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) campus. We had an interactive display
table, as well as taught four of thirty Discovery Workshops for
Girls: "From Mars to the Stars: Searching for Life in our Solar System and Beyond", Biology/Astronomy by Shannon Rupert, Mira Costa College, and "Roving the Red Planet (with the San Diego Mars Rover)", Astronomy by Gerry Williams, The Mars Society |
| February 12, 2006 | The Mars Society's Mars Desert Research Station continued with a two week adventure of Crew 44, "Expedition Beta" by the Mars Society Canada. |
| February 11, 2006 | Fiesta Island's Over-the-Line field in Mission Bay will hosted a Model Rocket Launch event by Diego Area Rocket Team (D.A.R.T.). |
| February 10, 2006 | The next REGULAR MONTHLY
MEETING of TMS-SD at The Women's History Museum and
Educational Center. After a very short business meeting , we presented the following
special program: "WOMEN ON MARS", with Shannon
Rupert, Kathryn Bywaters, and Melinda
Capes; all having been crewmembers at the
Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) in
the Utah desert. Here are the minutes of our February 2006 meeting in PowerPoint Show (.pps) format. |
| February 10, 2006 | TMS-SD presented a San Diego Mars Rover assembly for over 500 children at the Hidden Valley Middle School in Escondido. |
| February 9, 2006 | TMS-SD participated in a School-wide K-8 Science Fair Night at the Chabad Hebrew Academy in Scripps Ranch by taking our San Diego Mars Rover out for the kids to drive from 5pm to 7:30pm. |
| February 1, 2006 | The San Diego Astronomy
Association (SDAA) hosted their
"STARS IN THE PARK"
public telescope viewing event outside the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center in Balboa Park.
TMS-SD members were there for public outreach activities. |
| January 29, 2006 | The Mars Society's Mars Desert Research Station continued its fifth season in the Utah desert near Capitol Reef National Park with a two week adventure with Crew 43. |
| January 23, 2006 | The Learning Choice Academy hosted Science Day - NASA Assembly at the Scottish Rite Masonic Center in Mission Valley. TMS-SD participated with our Interactive Display Table and our San Diego Mars Rover from 2:00pm to 6:00pm. |
January 20, 2006 | TMS-SD MARS MOVIE NIGHT -- "MARTIANS GO HOME" (1990). |
| January 15-28, 2006 | The Mars Society's Mars Desert Research Station continued its fifth season in the Utah desert near Capitol Reef National Park with a two week adventure with Crew 42. Kathryn Bywaters from San Diego was the Crew Biochemist. |
| January 14, 2006 | TMS-SD took our our San Diego Mars Rover out to the "San Diego Aerospace Museum's Family Day" from 11:00am to 3:00pm in Balboa Park. |
| January 13, 2006 | The minutes of our January 2006 meeting. |
| January 4, 2006 | The San Diego Astronomy Association (SDAA) hosted their "STARS IN THE PARK" public telescope viewing event outside the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center in Balboa Park. TMS-SD members were there for public outreach activities. |
| January 1-14, 2006 | The Mars Society's
Mars Desert Research Station began
its fifth season in the Utah desert near Capitol Reef National Park with a two week adventure
with Crew 41 and San Diego member Shannon
Rupert -- who already holds the record of the most simulated Mars exploration time at 104
days. San Diego member Gerry Williams provided MDRS Mission Support CapCOM for this crew. |
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