Lost on the Moon Worksheet

from NASA

Your spaceship has just crashed on the moon. You were scheduled to rendezvous with a mother ship 200 miles away on the lighted surface of the moon, but the rough landing has ruined your ship 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 number 1 by the most important item, number 2 by the second most important, and so on, through number 15, the least important.

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______ Box of matches ______ Food concentrate ______ 50 feet of nylon rope ______ Parachute silk ______ Solar-powered portable heating unit ______ Two .45­caliber pistols ______ One case of dehydrated milk ______ Two 100-pound tanks of oxygen ______ Stellar map (of the moon's constellations) ______ Self-inflating life raft ______ Magnetic compass ______ 5 gallons of water ______ Signal flares ______ First-aid kit containing injection needles ______ Solar-powered FM receiver-transmitter



Answers to the problem above