SPACE EXPLORERS
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PHYSICAL EDUCATION
As your former P.E. teacher, Tasio, is lost in space, his twin brother (Fasio) is going to help you in your training.
All astronauts must be fit and healthy, so listen carefully to his instructions.
MISSION 1: Flexibility & Gravity Balance
In order to become excellent astronauts you need to be healthy and fit. The fact of being in shape means getting a good physical condition through a focused mentality.
Body and mind are connected and this affects our life continuously. So remember: being more flexible means having better options to cope variable situations, to withstand stress situations and to expand our range of reactions. To achieve this mission you will have to show body control even in non stable situations, that’s why our gravity balance will be proofed. Only if you try to complete the following physical missions you will be able to be the experts we are looking for. So: Good luck!
MISSION 2: Speed on Earth
The act of moving quickly, completing a big distance in only a few seconds is without any doubt, a relevant quality to be considered as future astronauts. Taking successful decisions might affect the whole procedure and everyone in our team would be affected.
Take a closer look here.
So, no time to lose!
MISSION 3: Resistance Task
Are you ready to train really hard? How many days do we need to reach Planet Mars? If your answers were similar to “naturally” and “a lot”, then you are almost prepared. As far as you consider resistance as a key task for anyone that wants to take seriously part in such a difficult mission. Even if sometimes you don’t see the finish line. Or if you think you can’t reach it. Keep working… and avoid Mr. Flatus!
MISSION 4: The Power-Strength Challenge
Only the strongest will survive… at least with this hard pressure, gravity and temperature conditions. We assure you: strength will become a decisive part of your training. Qualified and strong astronauts like Ms Pozuelo, Major T or Major Robson would never survive if they could not arrange difficult tasks like opening the hatch door to explore the vast universe, getting food from our spatial food cans or, of course, lifting the lid of the toilet.
You don’t believe it? Try to do it after a whole day in a space suit to keep us alive from extreme temperatures. Our famous uniform weights over 100 Kg!
MISSION 5: Reaction and Vision Challenge
Are you ready to prove yourself if you could command one of our spaceships? Here you can train with two interesting tests. Don’t bother if you did not obtain the expected result. Practice makes Perfect. And remember: the more you practice the luckier you’ll get!
https://en.what-character-are-you.com/m/en/5693/2.html#1
http://www.bbmac.net/game/skill_test.htm
This is what you should see once you finish these challenges. Can you break the record of our All Star Ranking, dear future astronauts? ;)
MISSION 6: Teamwork Skills
Do you want to read a secret? Learn to live together, know better, speak to, laugh with, understand and respect your classmates and above all trust blindly, and astronaut colleagues all around. The reason is they could always need your help as well as they would be constantly prepared to save you from difficult situations.
“One for all and all for one” is a statement we team-orientated astronauts are very proud of. So: are you prepared to solve the questions and to pass all the cooperative challenges especially designed for you in your teams?
Remember clearly: Unity makes strength!
MISSION 7: Agility Show
There are some moments where you have to do many different things rapidly and correctly. Do you know how many neuronal connections are activated only while sleeping, walking or running? Billions! Our nervous system and its activity does never stop! Never ever during our life.
If you think about it, you will have the feeling you can’t “follow your brain”. We are every day, every minute and every second perceiving stimuli never mind in which context, taking decisions that have different consequences and therefore adapting responses with our body.
This complex procedure is one of the most important theories developed to understand how we deal with all the information data we have all around… Are you able to complete the agility circuits without failing?
MISSION 8: Cooperation Games
Do you think everything we do in our missions is only working, eating and sleeping? Of course not! That would be really boring.
We are really aware that the best method to keep our brains and bodies well awake is playing. No matter if role-playing, card games, strategic challenges, interesting riddles or with reaction quizzes. We assure you have to be very creative because the most successful games were at least in our opinion the self-invented.
The current mission will be focused on the importance games always had for us human beings. That’s one of the reasons you will have to modify the rules of some games or even better: create yourself your own games!
Be fit now. Get fitter always!
MISSION 9: Breathing Abilities
How long can you survive without food? About 30 days. And without drinking water? 72 hours!
However you would only resist about 175 seconds without air!
You breathe in and out approximately 20 times per minute without even thinking about it! To work properly, every single organ in our body needs oxygen to keep us alive.
This is why this aspect is so important for us to train, more concretely on space missions like this one.
“What happens to an astronaut's lung when traveling in space? Can a person breathe in space with out any help? No, they cannot, because there is no air in space. The respiratory system needs oxygen and pressure to push the air in and out of the lungs. Inside a spacecraft, engineers have designed systems to provide the right amount of oxygen and air. This is the same for the specially engineered space suits that astronauts have worn when they walk on the moon.
The main difference when breathing in space is that there is a decrease in lung capacity — meaning astronauts cannot take in as much oxygen in a single breath as they can on Earth. Due to weightlessness, the organs in the abdominal cavity are no longer pulled downward causing them to shift up and press on the diaphragm. This decreases how much air the lungs can take in during a single breath. Although astronauts cannot inhale as much air at one time, this change is quickly reversed once they return to Earth.”
Obtained from: https://www.teachengineering.org/lessons/view/cub_human_lesson09