Day 1: Keynote Address: Lennard Fisk | Session 1: Space Policy – Expectations and Reality | Session 2: Space Science – the Next Decade | Session 3: Role of Education in American Competitiveness
Day 2: Session 4: Mars – The Best is Yet to Come | Session 5: Space Entrepreneurs | Luncheon Speaker: Andrea Seastrand | Session 6: Exploration – One Year On | Session 7: Earth Science – the Next Decade | Session 8: Report on the Hubble Servicing Mission

Session 4: Mars – The Best is Yet to Come

Moderator: Steven Squyres, Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy, Cornell University; Principal Investigator, Mars Exploration Rover Project

Panelists:
David Beaty, Chief Scientist, Mars Exploration Directorate, JPL
Fuk Li, Director, Mars Program, JPL
John Grotzinger, Fletcher Jones Professor of Geology, Geology and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology
Robert Lin, Director, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California Berkeley

David Beaty, “Mars Science–Where Are Our Discoveries Leading Us?”

Fuk Li, “Mars Exploration Program”

John Grotzinger, “MSL Update”

Bob Lin, “Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN)”

Looking Ahead - Key Space Events

Jan 30-Feb 4 — AAS Guidance and Control Conference
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Breckenridge, Colorado

Feb 8-12 — AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Winter Meeting
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Savannah, Georgia

Feb 22-24 — Legislative Blitz 2009
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Washington, DC

Mar 10-12 — Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium
Theme: Sustainable Space Exploration
Greenbelt, Maryland

May 26-29 — 12th International Space Conference of Pacific-basin Societies (ISCOPS)
Montreal, Canada

Jun 12-14 – 5th Student CanSat Competititon
Amarillo, Texas

Aug 9-13 — AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference
Abstract deadline:  March 9
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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