One of our Studio residents Michael Johnson, in partnership with Helen White, Seth Jackson, Laura Kriefman and a host of other brilliant collaborators in and beyond the Studio, has today launched a Kickstarter campaign that will allow you to send your own Pocket Spacecraft on a Mission to the Moon!

This is a new project that has been developed in the Studio giving thousands of people the opportunity to design, build and launch personalised spacecraft and send them to the moon.

Now anyone can become a citizen space explorer and take part in a mission to send their own Pocket Spacecraft to the moon. Pocket Spacecraft are disks printed with flexible electronics, smaller than a CD and as thin as a piece of paper, that will be loaded into an Interplanetary CubeSat mothership to hitch a ride into space on a commercial rocket. The mothership will then set off to the moon and when it arrives, many months later, the fleet of Pocket Spacecraft will be released to land on the moon to complete their mission.

Explorers who back the project will be able to personalise their own spacecraft by adding a picture or message to create their own unique design. They will be able to monitor progress throughout their mission with their own Pocket Mission Control app, tracking the progress of their spacecraft as it is designed, built in the lab and as it travels through space. More technical explorers will be able to write software and even customise the on-board hardware enabling them to conduct their own unique experiments whether mapping the solar wind or playing laser tag - in space!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1677943140/send-your-own-pocket-spacecraft-on-a-mission-to-th