Dateline: Jul. 25, 2007
PROBLEM SOLVING | Space in Space
PROBLEM SOLVING | Space in Space
When engineers at NASA started developing the new Orion space vehicle, they decided to reduce its diameter from 5.5 meters to 5 meters. This activity has students work with this real world scenario to discover what challenges this change in size created for the engineering team.
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