Events

European Mars Conference (EMC) 2019

At the Institute of Physics, 4th – 6th November 2019

For more information and to buy a ticket go here.

SIRIUS19 Lunar Mission Specialist to talk at Oxford University

The Mars Society UK (MS:UK) in collaboration with Oxford University’s Aeronautical Society (AerOx) and the Science Innovation Union (SIUOxford) are pleased to announce guest speaker Anastasia Stepanova to share her experience on board the NEK Lunar analog station as part of the SIRIUS19 crew organised by the Institute of Biomedical Problems (IMBP) in Russia.

This event will take place on Friday 1 Nov, 7:30pm at Oxford’s Worcester College at the Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre. For more information and to register your attendance, please go to Eventbrite.

Mars Colony Prize Hackathon – Mars Society London

Taken place at the British Interplanetary Society, London

16 – 17 March 2019

Join us for our second major event, encouraging and supporting you to develop designs for a Mars habitat/colony. We want to encourage submissions to the international Mars Society’s contest, with potential for winning one of the prizes if you submit to the contest. Details below.

Mars Society UK Inaugural Event – Relaunch

Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre, Worcester College, Oxford

25 January 2019

In collaboration with AerOx, the inaugural Mars Society UK event ‘>>Relaunch’ is being held in Oxford on 25 January 2019. This is the 15-year anniversary of the successful deployment of NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover-1, Opportunity.

Join us for an evening of talks, workshops and drinks themed around the opportunities getting humans on Mars will bring.

To celebrate the UK’s contribution to Mars, we have organised a panel of speakers who are going to talk about the opportunities to reach, research, explore, or settle the Red Planet.

Speakers include:

• Piero Messina – Senior Policy & Strategy Officer of the Director-General Strategy Department, ESA
• Dr. Robert Zubrin – Founder of the International Mars Society (remotely)
• Dr. Jim Clemmet – Chief Engineer of Beagle II
• Alan Bond – Founder of Reaction Engines Ltd

Mars Society London Inaugural Event

RocketSpace, London

26 November 2018

Mars Society London is holding its inaugural event on Monday 26 November 2018 at RocketSpace, London. Register and find out more at the Eventbrite page.

Speakers include:

• Dr. Robert Zubrin – Founder of the International Mars Society (remotely)
• James Parr – Director of the NASA Frontier Development Lab
• Rachel Lyons – Director of Partnerships Space for Humanity (remotely)
• Giulia Manzetti – ESA (European Space Agency) Business Applications
• Dr. Tony Sephton – ESA (European Space Agency) Business Applications
• Andreas Klok Pedersen – Partner & Design Director BIG London (Bjarke Ingels Group)
• Daniel Carew – Investment Manager at Seraphim Capital
• Dr. Martin Dinov – Chair of the Mars Society London