Mitigate Hazards for Your Mission

The Educator Guide has a script, materials list, and prep directions. Be sure to have it open and ready to help guide you through every activity. 

1. Combine Decks B, C, and D for each group. 

• Which hazards do you think are the most/least likely for your particular mission? 
• Which do you think are the most and least dangerous? 
• Which mitigations do you think are the easiest, most cost effective, or apply to the most hazards? 

• Choose one of four proposed NASA missions and present what hazards, mitigation strategies, and other factors NASA needs to consider and employ. The missions youth are considering are both human and robotic. They launch on Earth and visit the Moon, Mars, or asteroids. 

• NASA designs suits differently for some missions. For the Moon, space gloves have adjustable pressure to make manipulation easier. Engineers are designing a space glove to allow for control of a drone on Mars. 
• Bonus: NASA has 200 different missions listed on their website. 

• This long activity can be split into two 30 minute activities: 
  • Part 1: Intro, Assign Mission, ID Hazards 
  • Part 2: Presentation Prep, Share Out, Reflect 
• Many cards apply to each mission. Youth can choose which to focus on. 

Apollo Missions: The Apollo Program was a series of space missions designed to land humans on the Moon and bring them safely back to Earth. It was mostly active from the 1960s – 1970s. We're still analyzing data and samples from the Apollo missions!