Lost on the Moon

Your spacecraft has just crash-landed on the lighted side of the moon. You were scheduled to rendezvous with
the mother ship 200 miles away on the surface of the moon, but the rough landing has ruined your craft and
destroyed all the equipment on board, except for the 15 items listed below.

Your crew’s survival depends on reaching the mother ship, so you must choose the most critical items available
for the 200-mile trip. Your task is to rank the 15 items in terms of their importance for survival. Place a 1 by
the most important item, a 2 by the second-most important item, and so on through 15, the least important.

First, you will complete this exercise individually. Then you will be allowed to consult with your group/team
members and go through the exercise again. Share your individual solutions and reach a consensus ranking
for each of the 15 items that best satisfies all group members.

Finally, you will be given the ranking that NASA has assigned to the items in this exercise.

Item NASA Your Diff For Team Diff For

Rank Rank You Rank Team

Box of matches

Food concentrate

50 feet of nylon rope

Parachute silk

Solar-powered portable heating unit

Two .45-caliber pistols

Case of dehydrated milk

Two 100-pound tanks of oxygen

Stellar map of moon’s constellation

Self-inflating life raft

Magnetic compass

5 gallons of water

Signal flares

First-aid kit with injection needles

Solar-powered FM receiver-transmitter

Total Points Difference

Based on an activity developed by NASA S1092 | SAIF 11.19