Moon Landing Team Exercise

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Moon Landing Game
Instructions: You are a member of a space crew originally scheduled to rondezvous with a mother ship on
the lighted side of the moon. Due to mechanical difficulties, however, your ship was forced to land at a spot
some 200 miles from the rendezvous point. During landing, much of the equipment aboard was damaged
and since survival depends on reaching the mother ship, the most critical items available must be chosen for
the 200 mile trip. Below are listed the 15 items left intact and undamaged after landing. Your task is to rank
them in order of importance to your crew in allowing them to reach the rendezvous point. Place the number
1 by the most important item, the number 2 by the second most important item, and so on, through number
15, the least important item.
My Ranking:
_____ Box of matches
_____
_____
_____ Food concentrate
_____
_____
_____ 50 feet of nylon rope
_____
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_____ parachute silk
_____
_____
_____ two .45-calibre pistols
_____
_____
_____ one case of dehydrated milk
_____
_____
_____ two 100-pound tanks of oxygen
_____
_____
_____ stellar map (of the moon's constellations)
_____
_____
_____ life raft
_____
_____
_____ magnetic compass
_____
_____
_____ five gallons of water
_____
_____
_____ signal flares
_____
_____
_____ first aid kit containing injection needles
_____
_____
_____ solar-powered FM receiver
_____
_____
_____ portable heating unit
_____
_____

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Moon Landing Game
Instructor's Answer Sheet
Instructions: You are a member of a space crew originally scheduled to rondezvous with a mother ship on
the lighted side of the moon. Due to mechanical difficulties, however, your ship was forced to land at a spot
some 200 miles from the rendezvous point. During landing, much of the equipment aboard was damaged
and since survival depends on reaching the mother ship, the most critical items available must be chosen for
the 200 mile trip. Below are listed the 15 items left intact and undamaged after landing. Your task is to rank
them in order of importance to your crew in allowing them to reach the rendezvous point. Place the number
1 by the most important item, the number 2 by the second most important item, and so on, through number
15, the least important item.
1) Take 10 minutes to decide your own ranking, and record your choices in the left-hand column.
2) Get into groups of 4-5 and make a second ranking. Discuss your individual choices and decide on a
ranking as a group. Record your choices in the second column.
3) The correct answers were compiled by a team of scientists and engineers at NASA. Compare your
individual and group answers with the correct answers and determine a score, the sum of the differences
between answers.
Indiv
Group Correct
_____ Box of matches
_____ 15
_____ Food concentrate
_____ 4
_____ 50 feet of nylon rope
_____ 6
_____ parachute silk
_____ 8
_____ two .45-calibre pistols
_____ 11
_____ one case of dehydrated milk
_____ 12
_____ two 100-pound tanks of oxygen
_____ 1
_____ stellar map (of the moon's constellations)
_____ 3
_____ life raft
_____ 9
_____ magnetic compass
_____ 14
_____ five gallons of water
_____ 2
_____ signal flares
_____ 10
_____ first aid kit containing injection needles
_____ 7
_____ solar-powered FM receiver
_____ 5
_____ portable heating unit
_____ 13
TOTAL Differences:
Individual:
Group:
[The point here is that most people will have improved their scores by working together as a team. Team
members will each contribute their background knowledge to the team's collective wisdom, improving the
score over each individual members score.]

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