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Our classy new logo, with huge thanks to Professor Josh Singer and his San Francisco State University design class, who worked for an entire year to create our new look.
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Our trailer, with many thanks to editor Chase Evans, video colorist Caio Simbula, sound mixer Dan Olmstead, and special thanks to DocFilm's Robert Barbarino, who organized and managed all the post work.
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Our new web site, designed and constructed by the talented JJ Mas and his able associate Andrew Steinmetz. |
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MADAME MARS NEWS
OH, THE PLACES WE'VE BEEN!
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Houston - The Madame Mars team visited NASA's Johnson Space Center last April to interview several incredible women working to get humans to Mars: Orion deputy manager Lara Kearney, space fitness expert Lori Ploutz-Snyder and food scientist Grace Douglas. Above from left: Madame Mars writer/director Jan Millsapps, NASA's Lara Kearney, producer Beth Rogozinski and cinematographer Carolina Gratianne, with the Orion crew capsule in back.
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Tulsa - We sat down with pioneering JPL engineer Donna Shirley, shown here with her prized working scale model of Sojourner Truth, to hear her stories about the early days of remote Mars exploration.
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(Virtual) Mars - We went on a Mini Mission to Mars with Commander Henry Rosenthal (left) and able assistant Samantha Bell (right) in the Challenger Learning Center at Chabot Space and Science Center, where space explorers of all ages conducted science and medical experiments and responded to a few onboard emergencies before making a successful touch-down on Mars.
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Novato - Our camera crew covered the Novato Space Festival, where we caught up with pioneering NASA astronaut Yvonne Cagle (left) - and we introduced her to Mars One finalist Kenya Armbrister (right).
The Madame Mars team also talked to space tech professional Heather Archuletta, fourth from left, with Robert Gudino, an unidentified storm trooper, Beth Rogozinski, Heather, Jan Millsapps, Caio Simbula and Michael Sousa.
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Mountain View - At Singularity University, we talked to space doctor and commercial astronaut Susan Ip Jewell, M.D., about her participation in analog Mars missions and the remote surgical techniques she is perfecting for use on Mars.
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NEWS FROM FRIENDS OF MADAME MARS
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At last month's annual Mars Society gathering in Washington, D.C., Carol Stoker reviewed evidence gathered over the past two decades of successful Mars probes that support the suspicion that life may exist on the red planet and called for a life detection mission to be sent to Mars. Watch Dr. Stoker's presentation here.
Congratulations to several "Friends of Madame Mars" who advanced to the "Mars 100" Round Three last February: Kenya Armbrister, Kay Radzik Warren, Etsuko Shimabukuro, Sonia Van Meter and Cody Ross. Next year all will go through additional tests to determine whether they make the next cut and whether any will undertake 8 years of astronaut training to prepare for the 2027 Mars One mission.
Above, Mars One finalists Kenya, Kay and Yvonne Young answer questions after an Aug. 8 performance of the Mars-themed play "Zero Hour" at Exit Theatre in San Francisco.
Dr. Susan Ip Jewell (center) earned a graduate degree from Singularity University on Aug. 19 at NASA Research Park in Mountain View, California, after completing studies in "exponential technologies that address the world's grand challenges."
Designer Katie Riva Herman is introducing a space-themed clothing line featuring both casual and elegant attire. You can find out more and pre-order from her new web site.
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Dava Newman is the "badass woman who will put humans on Mars," according to a July 27 article in the Boston Globe. Newman assumed second-in-command leadership of NASA last May.
NASA's Lori Ploutz-Snyder will speak on "Physics and the Biology of a Mars Mission" at this month's Radiation Research Society meeting in Westin, Florida. This symposium is co-sponsored by the United Nations Commission of Space Research (COSPAR) and the Radiation Research Society.
Dr. R. Ken Johnston, Sr., former consultant pilot for the Apollo moon program, retired aerospace worker and Friend of Madame Mars, was interviewed Aug. 30 on Revolution Radio - you can listen here.
Publisher Jeremy Joven's stylish magazine The New Asterisk featured an article, "The Women of Mars One," written by Dorothy Santos, in the Feb/March issue, featuring interviews with Blake Bevin, Kenya Armbrister and Jan Millsapps. You can read it here.
ARE YOU MAKING NEWS ABOUT MARS, SPACE EXPLORATION OR STEM/STEAM EDUCATION? SEND US YOUR NEWS SO WE CAN INCLUDE IT IN FUTURE ISSUES OF THIS NEWSLETTER!
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MEANWHILE, ON MARS:
The Latest from the Red Planet
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Curiosity climbed a 20-foot hill and snapped this selfie (actually a series of images combined) on Aug. 5, 2015, as reported by CNN. Mount Sharp is visible behind and to the left and the rim of Gale Crater can be seen on both sides. The two white patches are powdered rock material brought to the surface while the rover's arm was drilling for samples.
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University of Arizona grad student Ali Bramson has found evidence of a huge ice sheet just under the planet's rocky surface. The terraced crater seen in this photo led Bramson and her colleagues to create a 3D model that revealed an enormous slab of ice, 130 feet thick and bigger than California and Texas put together. The fact that the ice has remained frozen at its mid-latitude location adds to the mystery of past climate changes on Mars. Read more in Atlas Obscura.
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IN APPRECIATION:
Dr. Marjorie Bolen (Yvonne Craig)
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Yvonne Craig, who recently died, was not only the super hero Batgirl on television's Batman series, but was also the first female character in a movie to be defined by her professional study of Mars. Mars Needs Women, a low-budget sci-fi movie released in 1967, tells the story of desperate male Martians who visit Earth to steal the women they need for procreation, since a genetic disorder allowing for male offspring only has depleted all females on the red planet. Among the Earth women they study stalk and kidnap are (predictably for Hollywood) a stewardess and a stripper – but chief among their prey is a renowned female scientist, Dr. Marjorie Bolen, whose work in space genetics has earned her a Pulitzer Prize. Bolen uses her brain more than her beauty to help authorities foil the Martian abduction plot.
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A SPACE DREAM DENIED:
Hillary Clinton
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Who knew? As reported by Clare Foran in the National Journal, former secretary of state and current presidential candidate Hillary Clinton recently revealed her girlhood dream of becoming an astronaut. She went as far as to write NASA, expressing her interest and asking how she might best prepare for a career in space exploration - but their reply nixed her space dreams: "we're not taking girls," NASA told her. Clinton vows, if elected, to support planetary exploration.
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