Robotics
The challenge we completed was the human space exploration. It was challenging to figure out how to get food and water to mars. My partner and I had to do a lot of research. What we had to do to complete the challenge was that we had to get the robot to go around some craters, with the food and put it all in the mars base successfully.
What we learned was that NASA is sending 2.8 pounds of food to the ISS every 90 days. Astronauts need to eat food with a lot of calcium because there is really no way to exercise your bones and if you don't your bones will shrink so much that they will disappear. We figured out that NASA can send 20 packs of craft macaroni and cheese and they will eat it to keep their bones fat and un healthy.
This is our robot going over the sand to get to the mars base. We used sand to act as the lunar regolith because the regolith is like sand. There is probably a lot of rocks on mars to but we didn't have anything that was like rocks.
With the time we had to build the robot in we put two big motors with the tread. We also had to put the the biggest axles on the robot to connect the tread on to the robot to make it move on the lunar regolith. We didn't really have time to program the robot so we just put move forward and it actually worked.
vone website These are the websites I got the information from. The information I got from the second is that NASA sends 2.8 pounds of food and 1 pound of packaging for each astronaut. From the first website I got that astronauts pick food from a menu of space food. They can't just get what they want. From the second website I got that food has to be water not solid because it would just float in the air, the same for salt and pepper because it can get in their eyes and can damage the technology. Did you know that there is no gravity in space but there is gravity on mars.
From the first website I got that astronauts are working on growing fruits and veggies. The second website tells us about how they dehydrate some of the foods they send up there like peaches, pears, and apricots. The first website tells about how astronauts get ice cream and pizza and any hi calcium foods. In the second website talks about how the space station's kitchen doesn't have to be to high tech because the food is already ready to eat. Food and life is so different on the ISS than on earth. I wonder if that when you put an elephant in space if it loses all of the weight or just most of the weight.