Cosmic Marsville--The Village
Lenox Elementary Gym, Landing on Mars Link-Up Day Friday, April 24, 2009
April 20, 2009 To: 2009 Marsvillians From: 2009 Marsville Mission Commanders Kim Brantner, Amanda Stoaks, and Dave Seilstad We are nearly at final countdown in your preparation for our trip to Mars. We hope you have enjoyed your preparations as explorers discovering this fascinating new world and the important elements we will need to provide for our survival since it is so different from Earth. Your preparations have provided you with the expertise as astronauts to successfully complete your mission tasks on Friday. We are looking forward to seeing you implement your plans for your living quarters as you construct your habitats and hearing about your systems as you share how you designed it to meet your needs while on Mars. As is typical for NASA Astronaut preparations, we are providing you with a short mission checklist that will help you double check your preparation details. 1. All parts of habitat are assigned to teams in habitat and what we are bringing has been prepared for transport to mission site. Habitat Team 1 Floor 10 foot by 10 Foot 1 Ceiling 10 foot by 10 foot 1 Wall at 8 foot by 10 foot 1 Wall at 8 foot by 10 foot 1 Wall at 8 foot by 10 foot 1 Wall at 8 foot by 10 foot 1 Door Flap (about 6 foot by 3 foot) 1 Fan Tunnel at 4 foot by 10 foot 1 Connecting Tunnel 12 foot by 10 foot 1 Box Fan 1 Outlet Strip
You may want to decorate your parts of the habitat that you are bringing to the link-up day. Make sure you use permanent markers and not water colored ones. Water colored makers rub off of the plastic or smear when brushed up against or touched. You may also include a string or two of the small holiday lights to help decorate your habitat. 2. System construction is completed and Prepared for Celestial Questial
You should be prepared to share how your system works, how it is powered and how it meets the needs of the astronauts while on the surface of Mars. Presentation prepared and practiced. It to helps write your presentation down on cards. Your presentation should include the following: ___ Introduction of Presenters (team members presenting) ___ 3 Mars facts used in designing your system ___ How your system works (What does it do?) ___ A riddle about your system for others to solve There will be two times for Celestial Questial with each time providing 3 times for presenting your system. During each Celestial Questial time, half of your team should stay in your habitat and give your 3 presentations about your system as described above and half of your team will go to other habitats to hear about their systems. Your team will need to decide who will present during the first Celsestial Questial and who will present during the second Celestial Questial. 3. Planned your lunch ___ Must bring 10 ounces (283.5g) of liquid for each team member ___ Must not go over 22 ounces (623.6g)maximum weight including food and drink for each team member ___ Plan packaging of food so that you have very little weight left over after eating your food (consider packaging food together) You will have to weigh your waste after your meal which will include your packaging and left over food. It should not weigh more tha...