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Moon Walk and TalkNASA educational materials. Retrieved March 2, 2008, from http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/topnav/materials/listbytype/Survival_Lesson.html.
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You are a member of the moon space crew originally scheduled to rendezvous with a mother ship on the lighted surface of the moon. Due to mechanical difficulties, however, your ship was forced to land at a spot some 200 miles (320 km) from the rendezvous point. During reentry and landing, much of the equipment aboard was damaged, and because survival depends on reaching the mother ship, the most critical items available must be chosen for the 200-mile (320 km) trip. Please see the list of the fifteen items left intact and undamaged after landing. Your task is to rank the items in terms of their importance for your crew to reach the rendezvous point. Place the number 1 by the most important, 2 by the next most important, and so on, with 15 being the least important.
Table 8.1
Undamaged items | My ranking | Group ranking | NASA ranking | My difference | Group difference |
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Box of matches | |||||
Food concentrates | |||||
50 feet of nylon | |||||
Parachute silk | |||||
Portable heating unit | |||||
Two 45-caliber pistols | |||||
One case dehydrated milk | |||||
Two 100 lb. tanks oxygen | |||||
Stellar map (of moon's constellations) | |||||
Life raft | |||||
Magnetic compass | |||||
5 gallons of water | |||||
Signal flares | |||||
First aid kit containing injection needles | |||||
Solar powered FM receiver–transmitter |