PRESENTATIONS
(UPDATED 04/22/2004)
 

Video will be available in September 2004

FRIDAY, APRIL 9TH

07:00 PM	Opening Remarks
07:30 PM	NASA's New Plans for Space Exploration — Harley Thronson
09:00 PM	Announcements

SATURDAY, APRIL 10TH

08:30 AM	Continental Breakfast (Building 6 Lobby)
09:00 AM	X PRIZE: A New Generation of Private Spaceships — Peter Diamandis	PDF (1581K)
09:45 AM	Extensible Architectures for Space Transportation — Olivier de Weck
10:30 AM	Radiation Issues for Human Mars Missions — Thomas Coffee
11:00 AM	The VASIMR Engine: Express Flight to Mars — Tim Glover	PDF (4056K)
11:45 PM	Buffet Lunch (Building 6 Lobby)
12:45 PM	The 2003 Rover Mission — Grace Tan-Wang
01:30 PM	Geological Results from the Mars Exploration Rovers — Douglas Jerolmack	PDF (8032K)
02:15 PM	Mars Extravehicular Activity: Opportunities & Challenges — Christopher Carr
03:00 PM	Break
03:15 PM	Nuclear Power for Mars and Beyond — Andrew Kadak	PDF (22,738K)
04:00 PM	Artificial Gravity for Human Mars Missions — Thomas Jarchow
04:45 PM	Mars Gravity Program: Studying Partial-G Adaptation — Paul Wooster & Erika Wagner
05:15 PM	Results from the MIT Space Vision Task Force — Thomas Coffee & Jessica Edmonds	PDF (257K)
05:45 PM	Getting Humanity Into Space — Peter Diamandis
06:30 PM	Break
07:00 PM	Banquet Dinner (Royal East Restaurant)

SUNDAY, APRIL 11TH

12:30 PM	MASHER: Mars Advanced Safe Haven Equipped Rover — Shannon Flanagan et al.	PDF (1293K)
01:00 PM	Haptic Feedback in Remote Grasping — Dominic Rizzo	PDF (1042K) Paper (167K)
01:30 PM	Constructing Human Settlements on Mars — Bruce Mackenzie
02:15 PM	Mars Base Analog Programming & Design — Mark Homnick
03:00 PM	Which Way to Mars? (discussion session)
05:00 PM	Closing Remarks