OPENING QUESTION: Please list at least 5 categories of items/substances/requirements that we absolute, positively MUST have in order to both survive on Mars AND on the long journey out to Mars

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LEARNING GOAL: I will be able to identify *specific* difficulties in traveling to Mars during today's class.

WORDS O' THE DAY:

• Energy/Heat
• Food
• Water
• Air/Air Pressure

WORK O' THE DAY

What is the longest duration that a human being has spent in space?

Where did they live?

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Most Gracious & Humble Aerospace Students I present to you the International Space Station (ISS):

Please have a conversation with your group (oh and NO PEEKING on Google):

1) How high above the Earth does the ISS orbit?

2) How long does it take for astronauts to get there?

3) Why does it take so long?

Many of us (I hope?) might be curious as to what it's like to live up there.

Let's take a gander at THIS

Does that video make you more/less/about the same inclined to go into space on a 6 month voyage to Mars?

Let's discuss

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Here is a WONDERFULLY optimistic vision of a long duration space ship as shown in the (FANTASTIC) movie "The Martian":

Take a look at THIS interesting site (divide the sections up into your group mates and skim through it)

THIS is a bit technical, but it shows some of the difficulties in making a 'gravity wheel'

Let's discuss

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Now let's look at reality HERE

I've described the living quarters as being like "Being in a school bus with 5 other people for 6 months). THESE images show a somewhat more hopeful design

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Willing to go to Mars? Let's see...