{"id":594,"date":"2011-07-29T06:58:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T06:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/2011\/07\/29\/mars-society-convention\/"},"modified":"2017-03-27T18:37:13","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T18:37:13","slug":"mars-society-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/2011\/07\/29\/mars-society-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars Society Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please tell friends, students, relatives &#8211; anyone you may know in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana or within driving distance of Dallas to check out the Mars Society&#8217;s Conference from Thursday through the weekend. &#8220;Get in the car and drive over.&#8221; Single day tickets are available; events run from early morning thru parties late into the night.<\/p>\n<p>Attending can be less expensive than everyday costs of staying home: student discounts are available; free brunch will be served; a lounge area will serve snacks and hold evening parties &#8211; crash in the lobby, your car, or a friend&#8217;s room. \u00a0Ask relatives and friends to donate air miles; take a bus or shuttle from the airport to the hotel. Put your brain at the conference and enjoy sharing ideas about Humans to Mars.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marssociety.org\/home\/join_us\/convention\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-5vIPUX3vwT0\/Tjm_YHxFe6I\/AAAAAAAABm0\/zNmu_EVniMc\/s640\/2011+convention+poster+%2528winner%2529.jpg\" width=\"452\" height=\"640\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>THE MARS SOCIETY INVITES YOU to attend the 14th Annual International Mars Society Convention in Dallas, Texas. \u00a0The Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area, as well as the State of Texas, are considered by many the heart of the aerospace industry in the United States. \u00a0Lockheed-Martin, maker of the F-16, F-22 and F-35 fighter jets, is headquartered in Fort Worth, while Bell Helicopter is located in the DFW area. \u00a0SpaceX\u2019s McGregor propulsion test grounds is a short drive south of DFW, and NASA&#8217;s famed Houston Space Center is also a few hours driving from the DFW metropolitan area.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marssociety.org\/home\/join_us\/convention\">http:\/\/www.marssociety.org\/home\/join_us\/convention<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marssociety.org\/home\/join_us\/convention\/marsconv2011speakers\">http:\/\/www.marssociety.org\/home\/join_us\/convention\/marsconv2011speakers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Update (coverage from the Dallas Star-Telegram):<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Mars Society, founded in 1998, isn&#8217;t made up people dressed up like Star Trek officers or aliens.\u00a0They&#8217;re physics teachers, scientists and engineers. While they talk about the ethics and religious meanings of interplanetary travel, they&#8217;re also practical. Society members examine means of propulsion and train crews to live and work in Mars-like environments in far-flung regions of the Arctic as well as Utah, with some cooperation from NASA.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/2011\/08\/04\/3270751\/international-mars-society-meets.html#ixzz1UA56P25q\">http:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/2011\/08\/04\/3270751\/international-mars-society-meets.html#ixzz1UA56P25q<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please tell friends, students, relatives &#8211; anyone you may know in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana or within driving distance of Dallas to check out the Mars Society&#8217;s Conference from Thursday through the weekend. &#8220;Get in the car and drive over.&#8221; Single day tickets are available; events run from early morning thru parties late into the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,207,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mars-society-conference","category-posters","category-volunteer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6453,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions\/6453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}