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

Jul 27 — Deadline for AAS Awards Nominations

Aug 9-13 — AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Sep 14-17 — Space 2009 Conference & Exposition
Space: New Opportunities for a New Era
Pasadena Convention Center
Pasadena, California

Oct 12-16 — International Astronautical Congress
Space for Sustainable Peace and Progress

Online registration now open.
Daejeon, Korea

Oct 20-21 — 2nd Wernher von Braun Memorial Symposium
Von Braun Center
Huntsville, Alabama

Dec 2-3 — AAS Imagine ‘09: Ideas at Work
JSC Gilruth Center
Houston, Texas

Feb 5-10 — AAS Guidance and Control Conference
Breckenridge, Colorado

Feb 14-18 – 
AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Winter Meeting
San Diego, California

Mar 10-11 — Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium
Greenbelt, Maryland

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