Thanks to everyone who supported us here on Kickstarter and vouched to become a moon rover test driver. As things have not worked out the way we hoped, we will have to think of another way to invoke you in our testing.

To keep up with our mission to the moon, 'like' our "Hell Yeah, it's Rocket Science!" Page on Facebook, follow us on Google+ and follow @PTScientists on Twitter.

A big Thank You to all of you from the entire team!

The Part-Time Scientists

Less than 20 hours to go!

We got less than 20 hours on the clock and still a little over 70% to go - thus we need YOUR help!
In over 28 days by now only 7000 people saw our project, compared to other Kickstarters this is a very small number. We need your help to change this right now!

Please promote our experiment on all social media channels, post it to Twitter (#rre), Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Fark all places you like and love. Make sure to highlight us (@PTScientists) and we will do our best to get it traction.

Twitter campaign

Use Twitter to spread the word of mouth. Make people aware of the Remote Rover Experiment and tell them why you like it. Tell it to your friends, ask them to Retweet and get people that inspire you to do it as well. Pass along the following link http://bit.ly/DriveOnMoon and use the Hashtag #rre

We believe that space is exciting and space exploration holds the key to our future!

Note, our mission to the moon won't fail because of this but we will loose this unique chance in the history of space exploration to include the public in our testings.

Let's fight for the Remote Rover Experiment!

Watch out on our Facebook page at 'Hell Yeah, it's Rocket Science!' http://fb.me/PartTimeScientists and on Twitter @PTScientists for updates.

As education and excitement about discoveries is the key to a better world, we decided to make sure that some students can get an inside look at all the (remaining) phases of the experiment in a more immediate way than our regular testers - for this we've created a form on our website where they can apply and vouch for their classes.

It's not restricted to classes close to the actual site, but they will have the advantage of being able to visit us on site during the project phase.

Help us get kids excited for STEM courses and hopefully become the engineers of the future!

Spread the word http://www.roverexperiment.com/stem

Greetings - The PTScientists!

Meet Asimov 2.5!

These are the first working shots of the Asimov 2.5 series prototype, specifically designed to test drive the heck out of them!

Equipped with our special 360° - 4 wheel configuration, vector based navigation and additional test dependant subsystems like multiple cameras, solar panels and secret testing options. Everything is designed to be as simple as possible while providing valuable data for our mission.

RRE in the press

The Verge - test drive Asimov lunar rover

Gizmag - take control of a moon rover with the Remote Rover Experiment

Heise (for our german readers) - Netzgemeine soll Mond-Rover testen

*The one more thing*

For us the most important thing is, that you test drive our hardware and help to get it ready for the moon. Thus we increase your minimum testing time to 20 minutes! This means you get 4 times the fun to command, play and explore.

Special thanks to our friends at 2 Grad design for helping us visualize Asimov 2.5 so quickly.

Greetings - The PTScientists!

P.S.: For all space geeks that want to support space exploration, there is still 16 hours left to pledge for another Kickstarter we love, the movie Fight for Space!

In our latest update we added the following clarification for you on how you can take part in our experiment. The question is, who will you be?

Commander or Explorer? 

At the beginning of the experiment, every participant will choose to be either a Commander or an Explorer.

As a Commander you will have lots of fun controlling the moon rover prototype. Similar to an arcade game you will be able to collect points and beat other participants on the scoreboard. The challenges are designed uniquely for everyone in order to give us as much interesting data as possible. Take a capture-the-flag mode as an example, where you would have to find and get flags in the test environment, as you know it from some computer games – but this time using a real vehicle!

You are more interested in true science and realism? Then you should decide to be an Explorer. A simulated signal latency of 2.7 seconds and limited sight provide an authentic feeling of the challenges we will face on the moon ourselves. Of course, we don't want to end up in a moon crater upside down while trying to fulfill our mission objectives!