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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

May 13-14 — George H. Born Symposium
University of Colorado
Boulder, Colorado

May 17-19 — Kyle T. Alfriend Astrodynamics Symposium
Monterey Plaza Hotel & Spa
Monterey, California

Jun 11-13 — 6th Student CanSat Competititon
Amarillo, Texas

July 27-30 — 12th International Space Conference of Pacific-basin Societies (ISCOPS)
Delta Montréal Hotel
Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Deadline for new abstracts is April 15.

Aug 2-5 — AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference
Sheraton Centre Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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