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The full Program Booklet for the inaugural Australian Space Health Symposium is now available! Click here to download

This unique event is presented by the ad astra vita project and Mars Society Australia and brings together presenters and panellists from the world’s leading space sciences companies, organisations and universities.

Registration for this event is free and still open via this link.

The List of Institutions and Affiliations of presenters include -

The ad astra vita project
Aerospace Human Factors Association
Aerospace Medical Association
Centre of Excellence in Astrobiology, Amity University, India
The Australian Space Agency
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston...

Mars Society Australia congratulates Prof. Jane Greaves and her team from Cardiff University for their remarkable and historic research published today in Nature Astronomy indicating the strong possibility of microbial life in the clouds of Venus.

This unexpected discovery not only has enormous implications for further exploration and search for life throughout the Solar System but also for the investigation into the origins of life on Earth.

While Venus seems at first too inhospitable a place for life to survive, recent discoveries have identified it in other extreme environments on Earth that were also considered too harsh. These include both hot and acidic environments.  Some of the earliest signs of life on Earth were found in the Pilbara region of Western Australia in old hot spring deposits dating almost 3.5 billion years.

"Our Solar System has numerous other words which could harbour life. Spacecraft have explored and searched for...

Tianwen-1 is the second of three spacecraft set to take off this month for the red planet.

A Chinese spacecraft is on its way to Mars after launching successfully from Hainan Island in southern China. The mission — named Tianwen-1, which means ‘questions to heaven’ — is the country’s first attempt to land on the red planet.

The 5,000-kilogram spacecraft, which contains a lander, orbiter and rover, blasted off from the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center aboard a Chinese Long March-5 rocket at 12:41 p.m. local time on 23 July. Some 36 minutes later, the craft was successfully put on its trajectory towards Mars.

You can read more about this ambitious spacecraft here.

View of western New South Australia from 30km up. Mars Society member Steve Hobbs is busily readying hardware for Earth orbit and beyond.

One way to simulate Mars like conditions to test components on the Earth’s stratosphere some during high altitude balloon flight provided by Robert Brand and his company, Thunderstruck Space. 

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