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PBL Essential Question:
PBL Essential Question:
How can we create an environment for humans to live on Mars?
How can we create an environment for humans to live on Mars?
Research Component
Research Component
Here are ideas to encourage students to pursue a specific area of interest to them for more engagement and varied learning.
How can we generate our needed air?How do we grow food to be sustainable?What types of materials & structures can be built to accommodate needs?Space suitsTransportation (shuttles, supplies vehicles)Rovers (robotic &/or human driven) DronesetcHere are LEGO's specific research project ideas ( with LPs) :
How can humans survive in space?How do we generate energy for human outposts?How can robots help humans explore?Note: This will make for a longer but more thorough unit.
Research Resources by Topic
Research Resources by Topic
Research on ISS
Research on ISS
ISS Researcher's Guide Series
ISS Researcher's Guide Series
Alphabetical List
Acceleration EnvironmentCellular BiologyCombustion ScienceEarth ObservationsFluid PhysicsFruit Fly ResearchFundamental PhysicsGeneLabHuman ResearchMacromolecular Crystal GrowthMicrobial ResearchMicrogravity Materials ResearchPhysical Sciences Informatics SystemPlant ScienceRodent ResearchSpace Environmental EffectsTechnology DemonstrationAlphabetical List
FAQ about Requirements to become an Astronaut
FAQ about Requirements to become an Astronaut
STEMonstrations: Spacewalking
STEMonstrations: Spacewalking
Safety, training and a well-equipped spacesuit are essential components for a spacewalk as astronauts work outside of the space station in low-Earth orbit. Watch Expedition 55/56 flight engineer Ricky Arnold in this two-part episode as he explains spacewalk safety and training in addition to the parts of the spacesuit that protects astronauts outside the space station.
Launch Sequence, Orbit, Docking, & Re-Entry Experience Video link
Launch Sequence, Orbit, Docking, & Re-Entry Experience Video link
Daily Life
Daily Life
Cardiac Research, Bone Studies on Station Promote Advanced Therapies on Earth
Cardiac Research, Bone Studies on Station Promote Advanced Therapies on Earth
Water in Space
Water in Space
Water in space behaves differently. Surface tension and capillary flow can be harnessed to move fluids in more efficient ways.
What looks like fun could actually help us improve systems for moving fluids in microgravity, in things like fuel tanks for space travel.
Find out more about fluid physics in space in our researcher’s guide: https://go.nasa.gov/2KShhuT Learn more about the research being conducted on Station: https://www.nasa.gov/iss-science
waterfiltration.pdf
NASA: Growing Plants
NASA: Growing Plants
NASA's Matt Romeyn works in the Crop Food Production Research Area of the Space Station Processing Facility at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
https://www.nasa.gov/content/growing-plants-in-space
Astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor harvests red Russian kale and dragoon lettuce from Veggie on Nov. 28, 2018, just in time for Thanksgiving. The crew got to enjoy a mid-afternoon snack with balsamic vinegar, and Auñón-Chancellor reported the lettuce was "delicious!"
Credits: ESA/Alexander Gerst
John "JC" Carver, a payload integration engineer with Kennedy's Test and Operations Support Contract, opens the door to the growth chamber of the Advanced Plant Habitat Flight Unit No. 1 for a test harvest of half of the Arabidopsis thaliana plants growing within.
Credits: NASA/Leif Heimbold
Copy of T09_Plants_on_Mars.pdf
Mars Habitat Ideas
Mars Habitat Ideas
Second Place: Team AI SpaceFactory
Second Place: Team AI SpaceFactory
Team SEArch+Apis Cor
Team SEArch+Apis Cor
Team Kahn-Yates
Team Kahn-Yates
Team Northwestern University
Team Northwestern University
Corporate Dreams of Mars Settlement
Corporate Dreams of Mars Settlement
Mars One aims to establish a permanent human settlement on Mars. Mars is the only planet we know of that can currently feasibly support human life and will be humankind’s first step to become a multiplanetary species. Before carefully selected and trained crews will depart to Mars, several unmanned missions will be completed, establishing a habitable settlement waiting for the first astronauts to arrive. The Mars One crews will go to Mars not to simply visit, but to live, explore, and create a second home for humanity. The first men and womenwww.mars-one.com/ to go to Mars are going there to stay.Funding and implementing this plan will not be easy. The challenges are great, but as Mars One moves the mission forward, hurdles will be overcome step by step, with the help of Mars One's advisers and with established aerospace companies."
Copy of 200173main_Lunar_Nautics_Guide.pdfCopy of 200225main_Lunar_Nautics_Student_Handbook.pdfCopy of invisible_mars_2017.pdffact_sheet.pdfmarsbound-alignment.pdfOn the Moon Engineering Challenges.pdf
marsbound-studentguide.pdfMGS_AeroBox.pdfMars_helicopter.pdfMars.pdfCuriosity.pdfPerseverance.pdfNPP Activity Book.pdfMars Base Camp.pptxPage updated
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