NASA LANDING AGREEMENT EXERCISE
INSTRUCTIONS: You are a space crew originally scheduled to make a rendezvous with your mother ship on the moon’s lighted surface. Mechanical problems arise and you have been forced to land 200 miles from the rendezvous point. Much of your equipment has been damaged. Your survival hinges upon your reaching the mother ship. The most critical items available must be chosen for the 200-mile trip. Below are the fifteen items left intact after the rough landing.
Your Task: Rank them in order of importance in allowing the crew to reach the rendezvous point. Please place the number 1 in the MOST important item, through numbers 15 being the least important. Do the column marked “you” first then do the column marked “group” and compare the answers. The answers are listed on the next page.
Items |
You |
Group |
NASA |
Box of matches |
__________ |
__________ |
__________ |
Food concentrate |
__________ |
__________ |
__________ |
50′ of nylon rope |
__________ |
__________ |
__________ |
Parachute Silk |
__________ |
__________ |
__________ |
Portable heating unit |
__________ |
__________ |
__________ |
Two .45 caliber pistols |
__________ |
__________ |
__________ |
One case dehydrated Pet milk |
__________ |
__________ |
__________ |
2 100 lbs Oxygen tanks |
__________ |
__________ |
__________ |
Map of the moon’s constellations |
__________ |
__________ |
__________ |
Life raft |
__________ |
__________ |
__________ |
Magnetic compass |
__________ |
__________ |
__________ |
5 gallons of water |
__________ |
__________ |
__________ |
Signal flares |
__________ |
__________ |
__________ |
First aid kit |
__________ |
__________ |
__________ |
Solar powered FM receiver/transmitter |
__________ |
__________ |
__________ |