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Design A Space Colony

NASA has tasked student groups with designing space colonies on other planets to address humanity's growing interest in space exploration. Students are instructed to research space colonization requirements and choose a location like Mars, Mercury, or a gas giant. They then name their colony and determine population size, building layout, local rules, and how they will interact with any existing life - whether adapting the colony's design or allowing current residents to continue undisturbed. Finally, groups must consider objections and defend their colony's key aspects through a 3D model, poster, or presentation.

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Design A Space Colony

NASA has tasked student groups with designing space colonies on other planets to address humanity's growing interest in space exploration. Students are instructed to research space colonization requirements and choose a location like Mars, Mercury, or a gas giant. They then name their colony and determine population size, building layout, local rules, and how they will interact with any existing life - whether adapting the colony's design or allowing current residents to continue undisturbed. Finally, groups must consider objections and defend their colony's key aspects through a 3D model, poster, or presentation.

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Task Force: Design A Space Colony | Leaders 4 Social Change

Task Force: Design a Space Colony


Congratulations! NASA has decided to colonize other planets in our solar
system and has put you in charge of designing the colony. Each group will be asked
to design a colony that fits the needs and wants of its colonizers.

Why Are We Doing This? For decades, humans have had a rising curiosity
regarding space exploration and what is yet to be discovered. This curiosity has also
encouraged conversations about the potential for humans to live in various
unexplored areas. Here we ask you to try and design a space colony of your choice
while factoring in important priorities and concerns that may arise.

Steps:
1. Check out this article on space colonization. Consider reading about
requirements, materials, energy, transportation, space access, and more.
2. Then, try to design a space colony of your choice in Mars, Mercury, Venus or
gas giants.
a. Come up with a name for your colony
b. Consider how many people it will take to colonize the area.
c. Describe how you plan to organize buildings, concerns your group has,
and how they will solve them, laws you will put into place, and more!
d. Now, imagine that there is life on the planet already. Explain how you
will interact with existing life in the colony.
i. Would this change the design of your colony at all, or the rules
you have put in place?
Task Force: Design A Space Colony | Leaders 4 Social Change

ii. Will you allow them to continue life as they were before
colonization? Will the new colonizers take charge and make
decisions for an already existing civilization?
3. Think about the possible objections that someone could have and how you
would answer them.
4. Now, build a 3- d model of colony or create a poster of the colony(poster can
be an actual poster or a poster made using computer tools), or create a slide
presentation on what your colony will look like.

Things to Keep in Mind:


● You do not have to come up with an exhaustive list of characteristics for your
colony. It’s better to come up with a few that you feel most confident
defending.
● You don’t have to worry about answering all possible objections, but you
should have some defense of why you think your reasons are more
important.
● Consider how you plan to approach crime, immigration, positions of power
(what kind of government?), etc.

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