Wednesday, September 11, 2019 from 5:30 PM to 9:30 PM PDT
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5:30 pm - 6:50 pm Check-in, Networking, Dinner
6:50 pm - 7:00 pm Introduction
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Presentation and Q&A
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm Networking
$2 Presentation Only -No Dinner (Full Time Student w/ ID)
$5 Presentation Only -No Dinner (Regular)
$10 AIAA Student / Educator Associate Member Price
$15 Non-AIAA Member -Student / Educator
$20 AIAA Professional Member Price
$25 Non-AIAA Member -Regualr Price
(No Refund within 7 days of the event or afterwards)
Business Casual
Mediterranean Dinner Platters or Boxes:
(a) Chicken, or
(b) Vegetarian
Snacks and hot/cold beverages
President and Founder of the Mars Society
AIAA Distinguished Lecturer
The Case for Space
with
Dr. Robert Zubrin
Dr. Robert Zubrin
President and Founder of the Mars Society
AIAA Distinguished Lecturer
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 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), "Merchants of Despair" (Encounter Books, 2012), the novels “The Holy Land,” (Polaris Books, 2003) and “First Landing,” (Ace 2001), the science-humor immigrant guidebook, “How to Live on Mars” (Three Rivers Press, 2008), and most recently "The Case for Space: How the Revolution in Spaceflight Opens Up a Future of Limitless Possibility" (Prometheus Books, 2019). 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.