Y-Cadet on Mars

High-Level Project Summary

The project is interactive-game based. It provide a basic knowledge regarding mars and the preparation needed to blastoff to mars. For some people especially the children who still learning regarding the processes landing on Mars and what might possibilities encounter on Mars, the game might be able to give the basic idea on how the processes and what are the things need to be done when arriving on Mars and also the processes before that.

Detailed Project Description

  • The game is interactive-based game.
  • It works with only "WASD" keys and "spacebar" for interacting and all along the game until the end.
  • The game gives the basic idea on how the processes before and after landing on Mars.
  • We hope that the game will help all especially the children in building the basic ideas on space exploration which help them through their education.
  • We use 'Scratch' programme to develop the game.
  • 4 minutes video on project: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gbKYLkdxhOcjno7erzbUCVvvrfspXwTp/view?usp=sharing
  • Slide presentation:https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zH3Ov2coOuBk9TumEVD4E8o7szs1dCu2/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=117993964793944172229&rtpof=true&sd=true

Space Agency Data

Our project are merely mixture of future possibilities imagination and research from NASA on unveiling sustainable campaign to return to Moon, on to Mars.

  • Below are the main issue from NASA page that inspired us to work on the project.
On to Mars

The first human landing on Mars – audacious in its complexity – will be an achievement recalled with awe far into humanity’s future. Key components of the Exploration Campaign already are underway and include long-duration human spaceflight on the space station, development of advanced life support systems, and continuing to lead and advance the world in deep space science missions.

Overall, the Exploration Campaign focuses on a transformative approach that includes the development of technologies and systems that enable a series of human and robotic lunar missions that are extensible to Mars.

NASA continues to maintain leadership in robotic exploration on and around Mars. The agency’s InSight mission now is on its way to Mars and will land in November to study the interior of the Red Planet. Development of NASA’s next rover to Mars continues to make excellent progress and is scheduled to launch in July 2020.

The Mars 2020 rover will aid our search for past life and demonstrate the production of fuel and other resources that enable human exploration. We also will use this mission as a building block for a subsequent roundtrip robotic mission with the historic first rocket launch off another planet and a sample return. That mission will serve as a critical precursor to an eventual series of crewed missions to Mars planned to start in the 2030’s and culminating in a surface landing, which will be supported by the work we’ll do on the Moon in the coming years.


  • Based on these founding, we include possible appliances that used on Mars and give the basic ideas what might be found on Mars.


Hackathon Journey

Throughout the Space Apps challenges, we experienced a lot of interesting events. We learn how to create games in a short time and with a lot of ideas to cramp in a game and why my team chose the challenge is due to the current need in education. Especially for the children. This might be used as a helping tool in teaching and might lift teachers' burden in educating children to understand the topic on Universe. We use a simple and user-friendly coding platform which is 'Scratch' in developing the project. Due to having different type of work, we might encounter a little problem to discuss the project and need to comply with one's time. But, we manage to set a time and make a day to fully use on developing the project.

References

  • Scratch platform
  • https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-unveils-sustainable-campaign-to-return-to-moon-on-to-mars
  • https://trek.nasa.gov/mars/
  • https://www.nasa.gov/nextstep/humanlander2
  • https://www.nasa.gov/content/more-about-the-human-landing-system-program