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Required to be done before Class: none
Can be done before or after class: Requirement 3
Required to be done after class:
none Merit Badge Requirements:
- Tell the purpose of space
exploration and include the
following:
- Historical reasons,
- Immediate goals in terms of
specific knowledge,
- Benefits related to Earth
resources, technology, and new
products.
- Design a collector's card, with
a picture on the front and
information on the back, about your
favorite space pioneer. Share your
card and discuss four other space
pioneers with your counselor.
- Build, launch, and recover a
model rocket.* Make a second launch
to accomplish a specific objective.
(Rocket must be built to meet the
safety code of the National
Association of Rocketry.
See the "Model Rocketry" chapter)
Identify and explain the following
rocket parts:
- Body tube
- Engine mount
- Fins
- Igniter
- Launch lug
- Nose cone
- Payload
- Recovery system
- Rocket engine
- Discuss and demonstrate each of
the following:
- The law of action-reaction.
- How rocket engines work
- How satellites stay in orbit
- How satellite pictures of
Earth and pictures of other
planets are made and
transmitted.
- Do TWO of the following:
- Discuss with your counselor
an unmanned space exploration
mission and an early manned
mission. Tell about each
mission's major discoveries, its
importance, and what we learned
from it about the planets,
moons, or regions of space
explored.
- Using magazine photographs,
news clippings, and electronic
articles (such as from the
Internet), make a scrapbook
about a current planetary
mission.
- Design an unmanned mission
to another planet or moon that
will return samples of its
surface to Earth. Name the
planet or moon your spacecraft
will visit. Show how your design
will cope with the conditions of
the planet's or moon's
environment.
- Describe the purpose and
operation of ONE of the following:
- Space shuttle
- International Space Station
- Design an inhabited base located
on the Moon or Mars. Make drawings
or a model of your base. In your
design, consider and plan for the
following:
- Source of energy
- How it will be constructed
- Life-support system
- Purpose and function
- Discuss with your counselor two
possible careers in space
exploration that interest you. Find
out the qualifications, education,
and preparation required and discuss
the major responsibilities of those
positions.
* If local laws prohibit the
launching of model rockets, do the
following activity: Make a model of
a NASA rocket. Explain the functions
of the parts. Give the history of
the rocket.
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