In this activity, visitors imagine they are designing a capsule to carry a sensitive payload to land on an unknown planet. Working within size and material constraints, teams will design and build a protective system for their "space capsule," learning about design tradeoffs, material properties, and designing for hostile and unknown terrains.
To test their designs, teams will choose a landing surface at random, launch their capsule, and examine how well their design protected their payload.
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