DURHAM, NC – As Duke University students continue to savor the Blue Devils’ national basketball championship a week ago, many no doubt have set their sights on the school’s next title. But some students have their sights set higher – much higher. As in, on Mars, […]
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Student’s Space Dreams in Full Flight with Time Capsule to Mars Project
DURHAM, NC - David Rokeach is going to be an astronaut one day. He’s been saying so since he was three. “I don’t know how I’m going to do it, but I figure being a part of Time Capsule to Mars will help me get there,” he jokes. But he isn’t entirely kidding. “It’s something I’ve always been passionate about,” says the second year Daytime MBA student. After deciding against an astronomy degree, David has found ways to be involved with space throughout his career. He worked on Capitol Hill with Rep. Randy Neugebauer, who serves on The Committee on Science, Space and Technology, where he got to learn about NASA and experience it from a policy perspective.

Time Capsule To Mars: A Student-Driven Interplanetary Mission – February 23, 2015
MELBOURNE, FL - Feb 23, 2015 - Cassidy Chan ‘15, aerospace and mechanical engineering double major, a team of other Florida Tech students are part of the world’s first privately-funded and student-led interplanetary mission to Mars through one of the largest crowd-funding campaigns in history: Time Capsule to Mars (TC2M). Together with student-led teams from other participating universities, they are working to design, build, launch, navigate and land a CubeSat-based spacecraft on Mars. The project is being overseen by Explore Mars, Inc., a nonprofit created to advance the goal of sending a human to Mars within the next 20 years. “We’re calling this a new model for student-led innovation and I think it’s something that every participating university can get a lot of value out of,” says Duke University student and business director for TC2M, David Rokeach. Aerospace industry leaders like Draper Laboratory, Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Aerojet Rocketdyne seem to agree—they are providing support to students.
Florida Institute of Technology - http://blogs.fit.edu/blog/student-stories/time-capsule-mars-student-driven-interplanetary-mission/#.VPE5HPnF9DQ

Student-Led Mission To Mars Completes Systems Architecture Study at MIT – February 4, 2015
BOSTON, MA – Feb. 4, 2015 – An audacious plan by eight universities for a student-led mission to Mars took a big step forward with the completion of a key technical review of systems requirements at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in January, with the team targeting a launch within the next few years, mission organizers say. Time Capsule to Mars™ (TC2M) hopes to deliver to Mars, by 2019, a “time capsule of humanity” carrying digital content from millions of people from around the world for future human explorers to recover. University teams from across the US are collaborating to design, build, and ultimately operate a CubeSat-based spacecraft that will deliver its payload to the Mars surface. Time Capsule to Mars is a project of Explore Mars, Inc.
Explore Mars - http://www.exploremars.org/student-led-mission-to-mars-completes-systems-architecture-study-at-mit

New Ion-Propulsion System Could Deliver Time Capsule to Mars – 26-June, 2014
WASHINGTON — A student-led mission aims to send a time capsule to Mars, using a new, more compact kind of propulsion system. The Time Capsule to Mars mission is designed to bring three tiny "cubesats" containing photos, videos and other media provided by people around the world to the Red Planet, using "ion-electrospray technology." This new kind of propulsion system could deliver the cubesats to Mars in as few as four months, the mission's organizers
Space.com - http://www.space.com/26356-time-capsule-mars-ion-propulsion-system.html

Student-Led ‘Time Capsule to Mars’ Funding $25M Mission by Flying Photos – June 24, 2014
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The team behind a student-led, private mission to Mars wants to send you to the Red Planet — for just 99 cents. Time Capsule to Mars (TC2M) is now offering anyone with a computer or cell phone the chance to upload a photo or other digital image to fly onboard its planned trio of 4-inch-wide (10 centimeters), Mars-bound probes for less than a dollar. As the project's name implies, TC2M hopes to deposit digital archives on the Martian surface for colonists to someday discover.
Space.com - http://www.space.com/26337-time-capsule-mars-photos-crowdfunding.html
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TC2M Team member Cassidy Chain set to be a prominent speaker for the April 29th Pioneers’ Spring Banquet, in conjunction with the 43rd SPACE CONGRESS. Click below to learn more about Cassidy’s speech and reserve your spot in this exciting conference! http://missileers.org/ “Developing the Global Center for Commercial Astronaut Training” presented by […]
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DURHAM, NC – David Rokeach is going to be an astronaut one day. He’s been saying so since he was three. “I don’t know how I’m going to do it, but I figure being a part of Time Capsule to Mars will help me get there,” he jokes. But he […]
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MELBOURNE, FL – Feb 23, 2015 – Cassidy Chan ‘15, aerospace and mechanical engineering double major, a team of other Florida Tech students are part of the world’s first privately-funded and student-led interplanetary mission to Mars through one of the largest crowd-funding campaigns in history: Time Capsule to Mars (TC2M). Together […]
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Read from Source An audacious plan by eight universities for a student-led mission to Mars took a big step forward with the completion of a key technical review of systems requirements at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in January, with the team targeting a launch within the next few […]
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by Jeff Foust — July 2, 2014 Time Capsule to Mars Mission Director Emily Briere, a Duke University rising senior, explains her $25 million Mars mission concept June 23 at the National Press Club in Washington. Credit: Brian Berger/SpaceNews Read from the Source WASHINGTON — A project to send the first student-built small spacecraft […]
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Time Capsule to Mars Cubesat A student-led project aims to send a time capsule of life on Earth to Mars in the form of a cubesat (pictured). The spacecraft will potentially use a new kind of propulsion. WASHINGTON — A student-led mission aims to send a time capsule to Mars, […]
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Leaders from Academia, Aerospace Rally Behind $25 Million Student-Led CubeSat Mission Which Will Carry Millions of Digital Images, Video and Data to the Red Planet WASHINGTON, D.C. – June 24, 2014 – At a press conference Monday, Time Capsule to Mars™ (TC2M), a project of Explore Mars, officially launched the […]
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Read from the Source Most people will bury a time capsule, but a group of brilliant young minds will surely find something more exciting to do with it — like sending it off to Mars. That’s exactly what a team of students from MIT, Duke University, Stanford University and the […]
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Student-led mission aims for 2017 launch This vista of the Endeavour Crater rim on Mars in a photo taken May 21, 2014. By Yasmeen Abutaleb GLOBE CORRESPONDENT JUNE 24, 2014 Read from the Source Humans have yet to travel to Mars, but students from MIT and other universities announced Monday […]
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The student-led Time Capsule to Mars proposes to send a trio of small spacecraft to the Red Planet to deposit photos and digital media to the Martian surface for colonists to discover. Read from Source Time Capsule to Mars (TC2M) is now offering anyone with a computer or cell phone the […]
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BY ALAN BOYLE Read from the Source A student-led project called Time Capsule to Mars kicked off a $25 million crowdfunding campaign on Monday, with the aim of sending 4-inch-wide probes to the Red Planet. For 99 cents, supporters can upload a photo, an audio or video clip or a snippet […]
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A student-led project aims to send three CubeSats time capsules like this one to Mars. Read from the Source WASHINGTON — A student-led project aims to send a time capsule to Mars for future explorers to discover, its organizers announced today (June 23). Time Capsule to Mars (TC2M), a project […]
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Project to be the First Privately-Funded Mission to Mars, a CubeSat-based Spacecraft with Custom Propulsion Technology June 17, 2014 08:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time Read from Source. WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Time Capsule to Mars™ (TC2M), the world’s first student-led interplanetary mission, will host a press conference on Monday, June 23, 2014 at 1:30 […]
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A group of students wants to send a time capsule filled with images and sounds from life on Earth to Mars. The project, called Time Capsule to Mars, aims to develop and load three small, identical spacecraft with photos, messages, audio and video provided by people from around the world… […]
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The project is called Time Capsule to Mars, and could be the first commercial mission to the planet, if all goes according to plan. Launched by Duke University student Emily Briere, the mission is the latest attempt to crowd fund a space trip… Read from source. “For a Buck, You’ll […]
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A Duke University junior is leading a cohort of students from across the nation on a mission to Mars—and she’s hoping the rest of the world will join them for the journey. “It is one that, like sending man to the moon, involves technologies that do not yet exist and […]
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