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Posted by: SFJCody Sep 2 2005, 08:47 PM

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Posted by: elakdawalla Sep 2 2005, 09:14 PM

One Martian year is DEFINITELY an event to celebrate (much more appropriate than celebrating one Earth year, I think!). So -- does anybody have any great ideas for how it should be celebrated?

Emily

Posted by: dilo Sep 2 2005, 09:22 PM

A convention/party for all people partecipating to the Forum?

Posted by: dvandorn Sep 3 2005, 08:30 AM

A get-together would be marvelous -- but since we're scattered all across the planet, it's probably not very practical.

-the other Doug

Posted by: mars loon Sep 10 2005, 10:04 PM

One excellent way to celebrate and get together, is to come to Princeton NJ for a lecture I have arranged by the RAT designer, Dr Stephen Gorevan, on Sep 13, 2005 at 8 PM

For more info please check this topic :

http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=1380

and this website:

http://www.princetonastronomy.org/

his outstanding mission contributions are highlighted in Steve Squyres new book:

"Roving Mars: Spirit, Opportunity and the Exploration of the Red Planet"

All forum members and friends are welcome to this free lecture at Princeton University

Ken

Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton (AAAP)

Posted by: CosmicRocker Sep 11 2005, 05:17 AM

Can you imagine what would have been missed without the RAT? I'd love to attend that. The MER session at the December AGU meeting in SF sounds really awesome, too. I doubt I could make it to either one.

I hadn't seen it mentioned elsewhere, but Sol 600 has just come and gone for Spirit. I think there are decent odds it will see Sol 1K.

Posted by: Reckless Sep 11 2005, 09:10 AM

Yes, a get-together would be good. One way to compensate for our differing abilities to attend would be to plan it well in advance. I'm sure quite a few of us could book a 'holiday' a couple of months in advance, so that we could get to a chosen location.
Our interest in unmanned spaceflight, or even these two rovers isn't going to wane over a period of a few months.
If it's advertised here and has a speaker or two I'm game.

Roy F

Posted by: djellison Sep 11 2005, 09:23 AM

I think the thing to do would be to wait for MER mission end (a tragic thing to wait for, I know ) and then schedule something 1 yr in advance - so everyone can plan for it, save up for it etc etc. Get some good speakers in, try and tie it in to the w'end before a big conference so the people will be around.

Doug

Posted by: mars loon Sep 18 2005, 08:40 PM

Its a great idea to have a wrap-up conference. But too tragic to even contemplate the end.

So in the meantime ......

Steve Gorevan gave an excellent presentation in Princeton (see this thread).
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=1385

And, he generously loaned me a full scale model of the RAT and RAT hole (see pictures posted by Airbag) which I'll show at my rover lecture/display at The Franklin Institute Science Museum on Sat Oct 1 as part of "World Space Day". please feel free to stop by:
http://www.fi.edu/

and view panoramas, etc. from various forum members including jvandriel, nico, tman, ustrax and doug. excellent work all around

ken