Journey To The Moon and Beyond

Journey To The Moon and Beyond

Write a science fiction short story that

incorporates a trip to the moon

or beyond.

Apollo: Command and Service Modules

Picture taken by the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM: not shown). 2 astronauts are in the LEM and 1 astronaut is in the command module (the all silver

capsule shown at right.

Criteria• How many physics concepts do you need

to include for an A?• How much of the grade should depend on

the creativity and interest of the story?• What is the maximum and minimum

length of the story?• Keep a list of the “modifications of

physics” and explain why it is a science fiction story?

(…the ion accelerator causes speeds up to ½ the speed of light)

Relative Sizes of the smaller, mostly rocky planets.

Unmanned spacecraft have landed on Mars and Venus. Several spacecraft have flown by

Mercury, Venus and Mars. Photographs of Pluto have been taken from great distances

so surface details remain a mystery.

The pod cast below reviews the Phoenix

Missionhttp://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/video/phx20081110-640b.m4v

Pioneer and Voyager spacecraft have flown by and photographed the gas giants

The Galileo spacecraft orbited Jupiter and photographed the moons of Jupiter. The 4 well

known moons of Jupiter are Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. Active volcanoes are present on Io.

Regions of volcanic activity

on Io.

Your finished story qualifies you to watch

a segment of the movie Apollo 13 in the

auditorium on the morning of Friday,

May 28.

Due Date: Monday, May 24.

So where will your mission explore?

And what mysteries will be revealed?

SOHO, Coronas-F and TRACE are three satellites taking images of the Sun.

http://science.nasa.gov/media/medialibrary/2010/04/21/aia_cme_closeup_20100408-H0200-H0500_304-171.mp4

The web link will display a movie of the Sun taken by the NEW Solar Dynamics Observatory (it may take 1 minute or longer to download)