Bringing The Planetary Society collectively
Over 800 members joined us in watching a once-in-a-lifetime complete photo voltaic eclipse at our Eclipse-O-Rama occasion in Fredericksburg, Texas. The 2-day pageant featured stargazing, talks by skilled astronomers, a meet and greet with Invoice Nye, and loads of video games and meals. Everybody had a blast making reminiscences collectively, as an area neighborhood.
In 2021, we organized a two-day digital pageant to have a good time the arrival of three totally different spacecraft to the planet Mars. Folks from world wide joined Planetfest ‘21, together with JPL chief engineer Rob Manning, writer Andy Weir, astronaut Jessica Watkins, and Star Trek actor Kate Mulgrew.
Lastly, in 2025, we celebrated our 45-year anniversary with the Cosmic Shores Gala aboard the enduring Queen Mary. Tickets had been offered out, and everybody from NASA leaders and Star Trek actors to constitution members had been there.
The Planetary Society took the chance to look again on our wealthy historical past of accomplishments, bringing our neighborhood collectively across the collective ardour for exploration all of us share. We celebrated our advocacy campaigns, our far-reaching viewers, our profitable area missions, and our spectacular marketing campaign to lift $40 million in 5 years.
We additionally appeared to the longer term. Many on the gala spoke concerning the disaster now dealing with area science and exploration, drawing a parallel between the political surroundings by which the Society was based and that prevailing in 2025. However not every little thing has remained the identical. Whereas our grassroots motion is fueled by the identical collective ardour, we’re extra succesful than ever earlier than — and that’s thanks, partly, to the Area for Everybody framework.
