Today during the 16th Annual International Mars Society Convention, the Mars Society announced the launch of an international engineering competition for student teams to propose design concepts for the architecture of…
The Mars Society announced today that it is initiating an effort to conduct a one-year simulated human Mars exploration mission in the Canadian high Arctic at its Flashline Mars Arctic…
The Mars Society is pleased to announce that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the International Network for Terrestrial Research and Monitoring in the Arctic (EU-INTERACT) to use…
Now that the initial public reaction to Dennis Tito’s press release about his Inspiration Mars plan has died down, it’s time to take a good look at the nuts and…
The Australasian TasMars expedition is now coming to an end after a highly successful two week mission. Crew members included California based Australian engineer David Willson and Melbourne engineer Emma…
The Queensland Chapter of Mars Society Australia is now back in the swing of things! We recently had our first meeting for the new year last Tuesday the 15th of…
MSA wishes the greatest success to the TasMars expedition, which has just commenced at the Mars Desert research Station. The TasMars crew is the 123rd to work at MDRS and…
Professor Ross Taylor gave the opening presentation (Photo: Rod Taylor)As the Curiosity rover continued its solitary trek towards Mount Sharp, on a small blue planet some 300 million kilometres away,…
The 12th Australian Mars Exploration Conference (AMEC2012) will be held in Canberra this coming weekend and is an opportunity for researchers and space enthusiasts to meet and discuss some of…
A preliminary list of speakers and abstracts for AMEC2012 has now been released, and consists of local and international presenters. They include Dr Duncan Steel, Dr Jonathan Clarke, Dr Colin Paine,…
