Today students from CMS and LMS participated in a live videoconference with NASA’s Glenn Research Center exploring the challenges of sending humans to Mars. The NASA expert taught the students about the conditions on Mars compared to the Earth and the moon, supplies needed when traveling into outer space, and the problems astronauts face during space flight. Students learned about the challenges faced when planning a human mission to Mars, including the amount of food and water needed for the 30-month trip to Mars and back, how to take a shower and use the restroom on a spacecraft, purposeful recycling of liquids, problems and solutions for muscle atrophy and loss of bone mass, the dangers of radiation, and the logistics of communication. Students were also able to ask a variety of questions during the videoconference as well of view images from spacecraft that have landed on Mars.
