Topic: 7/20: Viking at 40 Symposium at Langley (VA)
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42986 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 06-25-2016 08:46 AM
NASA Langley Research Center release
Viking at 40 Symposium
NASA's First Soft Landing to Humans on Mars
Wednesday, July 20, 2016 NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia Live Webcast
8:00 - 8:15 a.m. - Welcome Dave Bowles, Director, NASA Langley Research Center
8:15 - 8:45 a.m. - Keynote: "The Exploration of Mars" Ellen Stofan, NASA Chief Scientist
8:45 - 9:15 a.m. - Lessons Learned from Viking Thomas Young, Mission Manager, Viking
9:15 - 9:45 a.m. - The "New" Mars Discovered by Viking Joel Levine, Professor of Applied Science, The College of William & Mary
9:45 - 10:15 a.m. - Viking's Legacy: From Landing Robots to Landing Humans on Mars Robert Manning, Mars Program Engineering Manager, JPL
10:15 - 10:45 a.m. - View from Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Paul Mahaffy, Principal Investigator, Sample Analysis MARS, GSFC
10:45 - 11:15 a.m. - Getting Ready for Human Exploration of Mars Jim Green, Director, Planetary Science Division, NASA
12:20 - 12:50 p.m. - Planetary Protection John Rummel, The SETI Institute
12:50 - 1:20 p.m. - Writing the Field Guide to Unknown Life Penny Boston, Director, NASA Astrobiology Institute
1:20 - 2:35 p.m. - Viking Panel Gus Guataferro, Management Approach Howard Robins, Engineering Design, Operations and Science Integration Al Diaz, GCMS Integration Jack Harris, Building on Mariner for Carrier and Communications Andy Stofan, Launch, Titan and Centaur Integration
2:35 - 2:50 p.m. - The Viking Labeled Release Biology Experiments Gil Levin, Principal Investigator
2:50 - 3:35 p.m. - Imagining Living on Mars (by Skype) Andy Weir, author, "The Martian"
3:35 - 5:05 p.m. - Capstone Panel: The Future of Mars Exploration Walt Englelund, Director, Space Technology & Exploration, LaRC Steve Jurczyk, Associate Administrator for Space Technology, NASA Greg Williams, Deputy Associate Administrator for Policy & Plans, NASA Jim Green, Director, Planetary Science
5:05 - 5:10 p.m. Concluding Remarks Walt Englelund, Director, Space Technology & Exploration, LaRC
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42986 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 07-21-2016 11:29 AM
NASA video
NASA's Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan delivered the keynote address titled "The Exploration of Mars" at a Viking at 40 Symposium on July 20 at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.
Wehaveliftoff Member
Posts: 2343 From: Registered: Aug 2001
posted 07-21-2016 10:53 PM
Wonder if Bradford Smith, leader of the imaging team, is still around, and why he wasn't present.
Also, if pictures of the Soviet Mars 3 probe and site, which beat USA to the Martian surface in December 1971 exist?
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42986 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 07-21-2016 11:19 PM
In April 2013, NASA reported that Mars 3 may have been imaged by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
While following news about Mars and NASA's Curiosity rover, Russian citizen enthusiasts found four features in a five-year-old image from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter that resemble four pieces of hardware from the Soviet Mars 3 mission: the parachute, heat shield, terminal retrorocket and lander.
posted 06-25-2016 08:46 AM
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