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Here is the ranking that
NASA scientists gave the 15 items. See if you
selected the same items as the top 5 - or most
important - and identified the 5 least important.
Even if your ranking numbers are not the exact
same ones, your knowledge of the Moon and conditions
there should have helped you decide which items
fell to the very top and bottom of the list.
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Items below are listed in order from Number 1 (most important)
to Number 15 (least important).
1-
Two 100 pound tanks
of oxygen. Oxygen to breathe would be the most pressing need
for survival.
2
- 5 gallons of water. Water is essential to all life.
3
- Stellar map (of moon's surface) This would be your primary
means of navigation.
4
- Food concentrate. A good source of food and efficient way
to carry food is in concentrated form.
5
- Solar-powered FM receiver-transmitter. FM needs short range
and line of sight. Needed to talk to mother ship.
6
- 50 feet of nylon rope. This will be useful in scaling the
cliffs you may cross and if their are injured it would be
helpful for tying them to others or objects for transport.
7
- First aid kit containing injection needle. Used for injecting
vitamins through special aperture in space suit.
8
- Parachute silk. Provides protection from sun's rays.
9
- Life raft. CO2 bottle in raft may be used for propulsion.
10
- Signal flares. Distress signal can be used when mother ship
is sighted.
11
- Two .45 calibre pistols. Possible means of propulsion.
12
- One case dehydrated milk. duplication of food concentrate
but much bulkier to carry.
13
- Portable heating unit. Useless on dark side, not needed
on lighted side.
14
- Magnetic compass. Magnetic field on moon is not polarized,
compass worthless.
15
- Box of matches. No oxygen on Moon to sustain the flame,
matches won't work.
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