🔬 Science · Space Exploration
Journey to Mars
Evaluate the engineering and human challenges of long-duration spaceflight to Mars — radiation exposure, muscle and bone loss, psychological isolation, communication delays — and assess the current state of the SETI programme: what methods are used, what has been detected so far, and what the Fermi Paradox is
Typical age: 13–14 years
“If your child was asked whether they'd volunteer for a 3-year mission to Mars, could they describe at least three serious scientific or engineering challenges that would need to be solved first — and explain why the 20-minute communication delay alone changes almost everything about how the mission would operate?”
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