Thursday, March 14, 2013

March 23rd Virginia Tech KTU exhibit- "Traveling to Mars"

Have you ever realized that you could be a part of the first human generation to travel to a different planet?  Sending a human to Mars is starting to become extremely feasible and it’s time for us to start getting excited about the possibility of this happening in the near future.  At our booth we will be teaching about the surface of Mars, current and possible future missions to Mars, and we will be explaining why it is that humans should want to explore the Martian surface as well.  We will be helping students participate in a variety of hands on activities such as instructing students through building their very own paper rockets.  Make sure to come stop by and learn about the next “giant leap for mankind” at our Manned Mars Mission booth!

About Us: We are a senior design team at Virginia Tech participating in the RASC-Al Senior Design Competition, which is taking place in Coco Beach, Florida in June.   For the project our seven man team is designing a manned mission to mars. This involves designing the launch of 4 crew members onto our own innovative trajectory to Mars, the landing and multiple-month stay on the surface of Mars for scientific research, and the trip back Earth.

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