We are from team Mars Explorer, chose The Trail To Mars: Can You Keep Your Crew Alive challenge. This is an educational game for middle schoolers that focuses on keeping an avatar alive and healthy during a voyage from Earth to Mars and back, and it identifies the most difficult challenges and the biggest risks involved in human spaceflight. The reason we chose this topic was, we were curious about the topic since it is related to Mars. This is because after the Moon, Mars become one of the most important planet where the astronaut were carrying out many researches such as water discovery and rocks that are chemically similar to volcanic rock. Moreover, we are keen when the challenge focused on middle schoolers. The youngsters must be educated about the life of astronaut in space, their basic needs, how the astronaut survive and many more. It will also build interest in the youngsters about the space.
Throughout the researches for the challenge, we learnt more about the astronaut and the space such as the oxygen level, their food intake, water intake, equipment they used to support them, communication, space suits, space flight, water recycling process and many more. This creates a very huge respect on astronauts.
Kamaleshwary A/P Letchuman