Humans to Mars Summit 2021 is underway: Watch it live here. – Space.com

Day 3 of the annual Humans to Mars Summit kicks off in Washington, D.C. and online today (Sept. 15), and you can watch all the events virtually.

The three-day event, hosted by Explore Mars, will feature panel discussions and speakers from NASA as well as the agency's private and international partners.

"As we emerge from the COVID-19 crisis, Explore Mars plans to carefully introduce more and more in-person activities," Explore Mars CEO Chris Carberry said in a statement. "While H2M 2021 will bemostlyvirtual, if it is safe to do so we hope that our audiences around the world will conduct H2M gatherings at restaurants, bars, private homes, and other locations."

You can register to attend the virtual event for free at Eventbrite.com. You can also watch the webcasts live here below on Space.com, courtesy of Explore Mars. Also listed below is a schedule of events, and you can find a list of speakers here.

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9:50-10:00 a.m. EDT Welcome and opening announcements

10:00-10:30 a.m. EDT A conversation with representative Ed Perlmutter (United States House of Representatives) facilitated by Lisa Callahan (Lockheed Martin CO, Vice President and General Manager - Commercial Civil Space)

10:35-11:30 a.m. EDT Artemis to Mars: an international collaboration

11:35-12:30 p.m. EDT Planet of Robots: Recent Milestones and Discoveries on Mars

1:15-2:00 p.m. EDT Robots and Humans: an Essential Partnership on the Moon and Mars Q&A

2:05-3:00 p.m. EDT Earth, Moon, Mars: Building a Sustainable Path to Mars

3:05-4:00 p.m. EDT Maintaining momentum: What can and should be achieved in the 2020s and 2030s?

7:00-8:00 p.m. EDT How can space exploration expand inclusiveness and diversity?

9:50-10:00 a.m. EDT Welcome and opening announcements

10:00-10:55 a.m. EDT Building a space workforce: inspiring and motivating preprofessional and early professionals

Moderator: Aaron Shepard (Electrical Engineer/ Science Communications)

Anthony Razo (SEDS, Board Chair)

Andrea Lloyd (US Geological Survey Earth Resources Operations and Science, Technical Specialist for the Landsat Program)

Morgan Irons (Deep Space Ecology, Founder & Chief Science Officer)

Owen Welch (Student, Senior at William T. Dwyer High School)

11:00-11:30 a.m. EDT A conversation with Bill Nelson (NASA Administrator) Facilitated by Janet Ivey (explore Mars, President)

11:35-12:30 p.m. EDT Making it on Mars: 3-D printing and sustainability

1:15-2:10 p.m. EDT Designing living space on Mars

2:15-3:15 p.m. EDT Nuclear propulsion/surface power

3:15-4:15 p.m. EDT A trajectory to Mars: advantages and challenges of long and short-stay missions to mars

Moderator: Tim Cichan (Lockheed Martin, Space Exploration Architect)

Hoppy Price (NASA JPL, Mars Orbital Mission 2033)

Bret Drake (The Aerospace Corporation, Associate Director, Space Systems Architecture)

Sharmi Watkins (NASA, Assistant Director for Exploration in NASAs Human Health and Performance Directorate)

9:50-10:00 a.m. EDT Welcome and opening announcements

10:00-10:30 a.m. EDT Hoppy Price (NASA JPL, Mars Orbital Mission 2033)

10:35-11:15 a.m. EDT Janet Ivey (Explore Mars, President) interviews Naeem Altaf (IBM, Distinguished Engineer & CTO Space Tech) on the IBM State of the Space Industry Report and the IBM Cubesat Project

11:20-12:15 p.m. EDT Utilizing resources

12:15-12:30 p.m. EDT TBA

12:30-1:00 p.m. EDT TBA

1:45-2:40 p.m. EDT How space exploration improves life on Earth

2:45-3:45 p.m. EDT EVA suits & operations

3:45-4:30 p.m. EDT Why Mars

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