How might we support and prepare missions to colonize the Moon or Mars? Students learn about future missions to Mars and the Moon and determine needs for successful travel and colonization. Students research challenges to space travel and complications related to human survival. Students design experiments related to necessities of space travel and colonization. Students defend the necessity of their experiment. Through the Cubes in Space program, qualifying experiments will be launched into space or a near space environment on a NASA sounding rocket or a zero-pressure scientific balloon.