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Space Topics: Planetfest 2008
Program of Events
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The Planetary Society Welcomes you to Planetfest '08!
Louis Friedman
- A look back at John F. Kennedy's call to go to the Moon, May 25, 1961
- Phoenix mission and landing site overview
- Peter Smith, Phoenix Principal Investigator
- Charles Elachi, Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Visions of Mars: The story of The Planetary Society's DVD on the Phoenix, with Louis Friedman, Jon Lomberg, and Bruce Betts
- Tribute to Arthur C. Clarke by Donna Shirley
- Readings from Arthur C. Clarke's Sands of Mars by Tim Russ and Naren Shankar
- Ray Bradbury
- Reading from Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles by Andre Bormanis
- Live Phoenix Entry-Descent-Landing from NASA TV, including on-site review of expected sequence and expert commentary. Landing projected at 4:53pm (Earth receive time). With Jim Bell, Donna Shirley, and Bruce Betts
- Live call-ins from other locations, including Emily Lakdawalla at JPL
- Bill Nye the Science Guy
- Images and updates from the Mars Exploration Rovers, part 1, with Jim Bell
- Phone call with Phoenix Principal Investigator Peter Smith at JPL on mission status
- New Data and possibly images coming from the spacecraft
- Images and updates from the Mars Exploration Rovers, part 2, with Jim Bell, including real-time commentary on any Phoenix images
- Images and updates from Mars Express by Tom Duxbury
- NASA press briefing on the landing of the Phoenix.
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