Mars Society UK Inaugural Event
25th January 2019, Worcester College, Oxford
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 at the Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre at Worcester College, Oxford 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
