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The year is 2040. You are a member of a space crew that
was to rendezvous with the mother ship on the lighted surface
of the moon. You experienced mechanical difficulties and
your ship was forced to land about 200 miles from the point
you were to be. During re-entry and landing, much of the
equipment on your ship was damaged. Your survival depends
on you reaching the mother ship. You will need to survey
what is left that is useable and determine the most critical
undamaged items that you will take for the 200 mile trip.
Your task is to look over the list below which contains
the useable, undamaged items left on your ship, and rank
them in order of their importance for your crew. Remember
you need to rank each item in terms of its value in allowing
you to reach the mother ship. Copy the list below or print
out a copy. Place the number 1 by the most important item
and keep going to number 15 which will be the least important.
Be ready to explain why you have given each item the rank
it received. Use your knowledge of the Moon and its environment
to help you make your decisions. When you are done you can
check how you did against the rankings given this same list
by NASA. If you are doing this activity in your classroom,
compare your rankings with other groups or individuals and
hear their reasons for their rankings before checking the
NASA list.
How close did you come? Were your top 5 most important
and bottom 5 least important items (regardless of ranking
numbers) the same ones as others in your class? Or the same
as on the NASA list? (See link below.)
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___ Box of matches
___ Food concentrate
___ 50 feet of nylon rope
___ Parachute silk
___ Portable heating unit
___ Two .45 caliber pistols
___ One case dehydrated milk
___ Two 100-pound tanks of oxygen
___ Stellar map (of moon's surface)
___ Life raft
___ Magnetic compass
___ 5 gallons of water
___ Signal flares
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___ First aid kit containing injection needle
___ Solar-powered FM receiver-transmitter
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(Activity modified from "Learning About NASA - Solar
System Student Activities".)
When you are done use NASA's
Ranking to help you see how well you did and find out
if you could be a Lunar survivor.
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Can
You Survive on the Moon?
