New Mars

New Mars is the flagship online magazine for the Mars Society, providing articles, essays and short stories from the most prominent members of the Mars and space communities. Updated regularly, New Mars encourages discussion and debate of important Mars related issues both through its original articles and also through its forums. Begun in 1998 by Richard Wagner, New Mars has featured authors such as Kim Stanley Robinson and Mars scientists including Dr. Robert Zubrin. In 2001, the editorship of New Mars was passed on to Adrian Hon who instituted the addition of the forums system and a new look.

Staff

Adrian Hon
Editor

Adrian Hon was the first person to be awarded the annual Mars Society Hakluyt letter-writing prize in 1998. Adrian is the Chief Creative Officer of Six Start and the founder of Let’s Change the Game.

Josh Cryer
Forum and Wiki Administrator

To be completed.

Stuart Atkinson
Staff Writer

Amateur astronomer and writer Stuart Atkinson is heavily involved in the popularisation of astronomy and space in his native north of England, through giving illustrated talks to community groups and writing articles for many regional newspapers and magazines. Stuart also regularly supplies topical astronomy- and spaceflight-related information for TV and radio stations, and has just begun his own weekly hour-long “Space” slot on his local BBC station, BBC Radio North, which is broadcast across the whole of the north of England.

Stuart also holds regular Science Outreach workshops in schools, which often involves him spending a whole day with a group of students, showing them slides, supervising craft and activity lessons and running Q&A sessions. In what little remains of his spare time, Stuart is also a successful children’s science author. To date he has had five astronomy and spaceflight reference titles published, and has contributed articles, photographs and information to many more.

Joel McKinnon
Staff Writer

Joel McKinnon has had a deep fascination with the planet Mars since childhood. In December of 1999, he took his 3 yr-old son to a special “Mars Day” at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA. The Mars Society had set up an exhibition to go along with the much anticipated first telemetry returned from NASA’s Mars Polar Lander that day. As we all know, MPL never called home. Joel stopped at the Mars Society table and picked up a copy of Zubrin’s Case For Mars, devoured it over the next couple of days, and immediately became a member.

In May of 2001, Joel helped to organize a fundraiser for the Mars Society along with the Northern California chapter. Filmmaker James Cameron, Robert Zubrin, Pascal Lee, and Chris McKay spoke at the event which, besides raising well over $100,000, provided the spark for the TransLife Project which represents a huge step forward in the Mars Society’s efforts for the cause of human settlement of the red planet.

Joel McKinnon currently works as a User Interface Engineer for a software company in Half Moon Bay, California.