Events
Upcoming
European Mars Conference (EMC) 2019
Venue TBC
November 2019
Mars Society UK has been selected to chair the EMC 2019 in London. More details to follow…
- To volunteer for this event, email us at volunteer@marssocietyuk.org
- To submit an abstract, email us at abstracts@marssocietyuk.org
Past events
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