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Time Capsule to Mars™ - a $25 Million Student-Led Mission to the Red Planet - to Announce World's Largest Crowdfunding Initiative and Industry PartnershipsWASHINGTON --(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 p.m. ET at the National Press Club to announce the official launch of the project's crowdfunding website, alongside leading space industry organizations, academia and renowned astronauts and space veterans.
Both Ms. Briere and Mr. Tidd will be available for interviews at a media reception following the press conference. Reception will feature hors d'oeuvres and refreshments and networking opportunities with others in attendance. To RSVP for the press conference and to receive additional press materials, contact: Andrea Oliveira at 512-922-7505 or [email protected]. About Time Capsule To Mars The world's first student-led interplanetary mission, Time Capsule to Mars™ (TC2M), has a goal to design, launch and land intact time capsule on Mars containing data that memorializes the digital keepsakes of the human race on Earth in the current decade as we set out to colonize the first off world planet in humanity's history. Time Capsule to Mars™ (TC2M) intends to be the largest-ever crowdfunded science endeavor, aiming to raise an estimated $25 million to accomplish the mission. A particular educational focus will include K-12-aged students from all over the world; the students will be able to access their own personalized "Mission Control" to play a virtual role in the mission, while tracking the vehicle's (and their data) progression through our Solar System - right up to the landing on Mars. TC2M is a project of the non-profit Explore Mars (www.exploremars.org). Read more about our mission here, follow us @TimeCapsuleMars or #TC2M, and on Google+. About Explore Mars Explore Mars was created to advance the goal of sending humans to Mars within the next two decades. To further that goal, Explore Mars conducts programs and technical challenges to stimulate the development and/or improvement of technologies that will make human Mars missions more efficient and feasible. In addition, to embed the idea of Mars as a habitable planet, Explore Mars challenges educators to use Mars in the classroom as a tool to teach standard STEM curricula. Explore Mars, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation organized in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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