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the date is May sixteenth 1992 or is

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that 2012 the location is NASA Lewis

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Research Center in Cleveland Ohio or is

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it this dichotomy was not a problem for

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about 200 students teachers and

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volunteers participating in the

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Northeast Ohio premiere of Mars ville

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the cosmic village if I could wave my

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hand right now what I'd like for all of

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you to do in the next few minutes is to

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pretend and what I would like for you to

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pretend in the next few minutes is that

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suddenly we have been transported into

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the next century and not only have we

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been transported into the next century

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but we are located on the surface of

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Mars and on the surface perhaps you're

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located near that taal volcano olympus

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mons which is nearly 19 miles tall or

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perhaps you're near one of the old

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craters that is on the surface or maybe

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you're located near Valles Marineris

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that's the large Canyon that stretches

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across Mars and is over 2,000 miles in

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length and in some places is over 4

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miles deep and you're on the surface

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today to create that first Martian

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settlement which is Mars ville Mars

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Ville is a student activity that is

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sponsored by the Challenger Center for

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space science education and the

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educational information and Resource

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Center the space agency forum for the

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International Space year has called this

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program a recommended educational

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activity for the International Space

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share in 1992 Mars ville link-ups are

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springing up throughout the country in

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accordance with NASA's commitment to

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help get young people interested in math

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science and technology the Mars vil in

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the hangar at NASA Lewis research center

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was sponsored by the office of

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educational programs

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this was the first Marvel link up at any

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NASA field center it's really then most

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befitting that you be at the NASA Lewis

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research center and it's my pleasure on

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behalf of Larry Ross the center director

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and all of the staff here to welcome you

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here today the students involved in this

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Mars ville link-up came from 16

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different schools in a three County area

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around Cleveland the students are in the

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fifth to eighth grade I have fifth

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graders and the excitement was

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tremendous the kids were very

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enthusiastic they work through a lot of

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problems problem-solving scenarios and

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we had fun after school two to three to

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five days a week on the last week on May

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sixteenth 10 teams of students would

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build habitats on the Martian surface

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each team consisted of groups of

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students from three different schools

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the students met face-to-face for the

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first time at NASA Lewis research center

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prior to this link up the only contact

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these students had was by telephone and

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fax machines each team was assigned a

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life-support system that they were

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responsible for bringing to the colony

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once they completed that they worked on

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team uniforms sensing the identity of

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their team and recognizing that

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artistically in creating a uniform they

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packed their own lunches according to

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very strict Marvel regulations and then

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they had to talk to teams from other

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schools they were grouped by three and

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four teams at peace and decide how they

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were going to build these inflatable

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habitats when they got here today they

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never met in person before they were

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here today the student teams each hand

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to design a support system for a

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specific area life support

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communications food production and

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delivery environmental control or waste

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management the modules were designed and

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built before arrival at Mars ville while

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construction

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was going on each team sent

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representatives to be evaluated in two

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areas uniforms and meal selections they

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were asked questions about their

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uniforms by members of the office of

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educational programs staff the meals

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were evaluated on content if they

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contain the four food groups and by

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weight after all these meals would have

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to travel about a hundred forty 1

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million miles before being consumed also

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looked at was recyclability and

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usability of food wrappers and

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containers after the ten habitat pods

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were completed the students toured the

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Mars Ville complex as they stopped in

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the different pods the home team

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explained their ideas and systems asked

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questions and gave their views before

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the visitors moved on bonus cards were

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exchanged on the basis of responses

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personal recognition and for a job well

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done after lunch the students then

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converted the individual pods of Mars

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Ville into a community Mars Ville the

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cosmic village they did this by

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constructing interconnect tunnels

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between adjoining pods when this was

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completed all of the pods were connected

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and the students revisited each of the

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pods by starting at one end and using

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the tunnels to move from pod to pod

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until the emerge from the last one at

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the conclusion of the day's activities

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the pods were deflated and the

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participants were asked to evaluate

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today's events the students were also

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presented with certificates of

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participation here are some comments

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from participants those kind of fun

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thing

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how to do it how to make the tunnels and

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tells the tunny tunnel maker and boom

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over did a lot of help with me today and

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we weren't we never fought together we

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never had never done especially I really

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thought we were going to fight because

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we have never seen these people and I

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thought you're like

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that's going at your face there are

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really nice people I think that smiles

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on their face says it all and I think

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the group collaboration efforts were

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wonderful I they just they did a great

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job and so proud of them you know today

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we're pretending that we're in the

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future we're pretending that we're

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building this bridge to know in the

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future it is not impossible to dream

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that maybe in 20 years to 30 years from

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now that some of you seated on this

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floor may be driving through this gate