Packing for Mars, Interviews

Interviews

Packing for Mars

By Mary Roach

Chapter Selections

Due: 17 Oct, 10 a.m.

One of two project pieces for (earning credit for) Packing for Mars will be a pair of team interviews. In one interview you will be the interviewee team and in the other interview you will be the interviewer team.

A team approach models how NASA has trained astronauts for missions and how they have sent them on these missions. Even for the solo Mercury launches, the astronauts were chosen from a pool or team of astronauts who trained together and who helped design the space vehicles that took them there.

You will be interviewed on a chapter of Packing for Mars by another team of students. For this interview you will need to be experts on the chapter. You will be asked to respond to questions from the interviewing team and you will not know the questions ahead of time.

You will also conduct an interview of another, different team of students. For this interview you will need, as a team, to develop set of probing questions that you will use to assess the understanding of the team you interview on a chapter for which they should be the experts.

You will have some choice in the chapters you will be responsible for. You may select two chapters for which to be responsible. Choice #1 will be the chapter for which you will be the interviewee; choice #2 will be the chapter for which you will be the interviewer. However, each chapter will be used only twice, once for each side of an interview.

Choose a team, yourself and two others, and at your earliest opportunity choose two unique chapters from the grid below. First come, first served. Email your choice to me, ChrisM.Flanagan@gmail.com. First come, first served. If your chapter has already been taken I’ll let you know that you will have to make an alternate choice. You have until Monday, 17 October to make your choices. At 10 a.m. on Monday, 17 October, I will choose for you.

Chapter	Team Choice #1	Team Choice #2
He’s Smart but his Birds are Sloppy: Japan Picks an Astronaut
Life in a Box: The Perilous Psychology of Isolation & Confinement
Star Crazy: Can Space Blow Your Mind?
You Go First: The Alarming Prospect of Life Without Gravity
Unstowed: Escaping Gravity on Board NASA’s C-9
Throwing Up & Down: The Astronaut’s Secret Misery
The Cadaver in the Space Capsule: NASA Visits the Crash Test Lab
One Furry Step for Mankind: The Strange Careers of Ham & Enos
Next Gas: 200,000 Miles: Planning a Moon Expedition is Tough, but Not as Tough as Planning a Simulated One
Houston, We Have a Fungus: Space Hygiene and the Men Who Stopped Bathing for Science
The Horizontal Stuff: What if You never got out of Bed?
The Three-Dolphin Club: Mating Without Gravity
Withering Heights: Bailing Out from Space
Separation Anxiety: The Continuing Saga of Zero-Gravity Elimination
Discomfort Food: When Veterinarians Make Dinner, and Other Tales of Woe from Aerospace Test Kitchens
Eating Your Pants: Is Mars Worth It?