Mars Society Announces Dates/City for 2012 International Convention

Special Announcement The Mars Society is pleased to announce that it will be convening its 15th Annual International Mars Society Convention on August 3 - 5*, 2012 in Pasadena, California.  The dates were selected to coincide with the anticipated landing on the Red Planet of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover, better known as Curiosity, sometime late in the night on August 5th.  More details about the next Mars Society convention, including the official itinerary, list of speakers and exact convention location will be made available in the near future.  Thank you, and we hope that you'll be able to join us in August! On to Mars (with a stop-over in Pasadena)! *The 2012 convention will continue into the early morning hours of August 6th so that attendees can enjoy the live feed of the MSL landing that will begin at approximately 10:00 p.m. PST on August 5th.