Jason Rabinovitch & Nick Parziale Student Leads

1. Jason Rabinovitch & Nick Parziale Student Leads

2. Overview 5-day student competition where students from all over the world come to Caltech to design a human mission to a Martian Moon We provide you with the tools needed to create a successful mission in only 5 days Provide opportunity for students all across the world to interact with scientist/engineers from NASA and industry Goal is to Develop innovative strategies and solutions which could be applied towards future deep space missions.

3. The Mission Photo Credit: Mumu Xu

4. Mission A human mission to a Martian moon stays true to NASA’s flexible path approach that was advocated by the Augustine Committee. This mission is a Fundamental step on the way to human exploration of Mars, and our solar system. In 5 days, each team is challenged to design a mission to land humans on a Martian moon, either Phobos or Deimos, and return them along with a sample, safely to the Earth. The launch date of the mission may be no later than January 1st, 2041.

5. Deliverables and Judging • Each team is required to: • Submit a final report by 1:30 PM 5/29/2013 • 1 hour presentation (50 minute presentation, 10 minute questions) on 5/29/2013 from 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM • Teams will be judged on their answers to the 5 questions by a panel of jurors

6. Space Challenge Participants Highly talented applicant pool of over 175 people! 21 universities and 11 countries represented

7. Handbook Information • Problem statement and 5 questions • Many useful design references • Launch vehicles • Radiation • Science examples • Team milestones and organization

8. Sponsors

9. “Rules” • All lectures and meals are mandatory • Great way to interact with the speakers and people on the other team • This is a “friendly” competition • Don’t forget to sleep! • Learn something and have fun

10. Good Luck Teams! The following is a message from Professor Ed Stone Project Scientist for Voyager

11. Ed Stone – 1 of 4 Welcome to the Caltech Space Challenge, where the challenge is to expand the five frontiers of space: • The physical frontier- sending a human or a robot to new places • The knowledge frontier- learning what is out there • The technology frontier- the innovations needed to send systems and humans into space • The human frontier- the physiological, psychological, and medical aspects affecting humans in space • The applications frontiers- the use of space to benefit life on Earth

12. Ed Stone – 2 of 4 Your teams carry the names of two JPL missions that have expanded those frontiers… Explorer- the first US orbiting spacecraft that discovered the Van Allen belts of radiation trapped in Earth’s magnetic field

13. Ed Stone – 3 of 4 Voyager- that explored Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, and will soon become the first to explore interstellar space

14. Ed Stone – 4 of 4 In the coming week you will be challenged to build on that heritage to finds ways to expand further the frontiers of space with a human journey into deep space. It won’t be easy, but you will learn a lot and will have some fun! With my best wishes on the journey ahead, Ed Stone