The special edition of up in space for kids has you all the needed information about the verbatim mission to mine asteroids to find palladium in space!!!!

INDEX:

Page 3) what palladium is, our aim for this mission and where we will be mining the palladium. Page 4-9) meet the crew Page 10-13) how robots effected the mission Page 14) how long it will take Page 15) what they will take and what will be already there Page 16-17) the problems they encountered and how they resolved them Page 18-19) the glossary anything you might not understand

What palladium is, our aim for that mission and where we will be mining it.

Palladium is a soft silvery white metal that is found in the asteroids near the upper east side of Jupiter. On this mission our aim is to successfully mine the material Palladium. This is because palladium is one of the materials needed to make carbon monoxide detectors. There is an increasing amount of carbon monoxide in the world and it is important to know how much is in the astrosphere fro safety regulations. The company healthy breathes in funding the mission. The upper east side of Jupiter is where we will be mining it. The asteroids are new to their location as they only appeared there 100 years ago due to the fact that people on earth wanting to be able to see them with their telescope at home making NASA move them away from their original location in the asteroid belt.

Meet the crew

The Captain Ms. Camma: Ms. Camma is the boss of her crew she must have experience in leadership and now how to take control, she must be able to listen to everyone and make snap decisions for what is best for the whole crew, she must also keep a detailed dairy of the mission that will then turn into a internet magazine, Ms. Camma must be compatible* with the crew and is able to handle the left off and landing from earth.

Ms. Camma, the captain

The trip supervisor, Mr. H1n3 (is a robot with a male voice): The trip supervisor has to follow their companies rules completely without exceptions, able to required everything that happens on the ship, report to their company if a rule has been breeched, to a certain extent able to be compatible with the rest of the crew and is able to with stand the pressure of takeoff and landing back on earth.

Mr H1n3, Trip Supervisor ( have no back ground of NASA because they are not humans and the privledge is reserved for humans.)

The pilot, Ms. Esposito: Ms. Esposito has filled the requirements for the pilot completely also. She has been on three other missions, is a human (so she can easily think on the spot as u have to sometimes do with landings a pilot), was a jet plane pilot before this for over a decade, is fit enough and has enough stamina that she can get an 14 on the beep test, she has trained herself so she can adapt to climates that have no electricity and little water and food. She is capable of thinking on he spot and making snap decisions if necessary, she can handle the left off and landing of a space craft or shuttle from earth and is compatible* with other crew mates.

Ms Esposito the pilot

The expert*, Ms. 4yl0r (is a robot with a female voice): The expert for this mission has to know everything thing they can about Palladium and be able to scan artifacts and take in information from the artifact they have collected, also must know everything to do with the human body how it reacts to things what can make it sick how to avoid illnesses and so fourth, compatible with the crew and can handle the takeoff and landing form earth.

Ms. 4yl0r, the Expert

The assembly crew robots V4n, D3r, P14s, R0s3 and C00k: The assembly crew has to be programmed to follow instructions with out and major or miner glitches, be compatible with the crew and can handle the left off and landing from earth. The assembly crew D3r P14s R0s3 C00k

V4n

The mechanic Ms. Farkl: Has to be a human (because if it was a robot mechanic and it shut down there would be no one to fix it), needs to know everything to do with the robots on board and how to fix them, is compatible with the crew, is able to withstand the takeoff and landing to and from earth.

Mr. Farkl, The mechanic

How robotics effect the mission Here is a table showing the advantages, disadvantages, and criteria they had to fulfill and problems that could happen

ADVANTAGES

DISADVANTAGES

CRITERIA/roles they fulfil

PROBLEMS

They do not need and physical substance to perform their duties or stay functioning which also means: they don’t excrete waste which means that: that they don’t have to waste space storing it or pollute thee solar system. Also don’t have to storage any food or water.

Can malfunction if programed to do the wrong thing, causing major problems for the robots and people around them.

There is a certain criteria that everyone/thing has to fulfil robots can only fit certain criteria’s. Below lists what criteria’s they can fulfil.

Robots today are water resistant and are space dust proof how ever there are the rare exceptions (1 out of 30,000,000) that there out side layer is not air tight and proof of space dust and water this could lead to a complete melt down of a robot causing them to shut down, fumes could come out, sending wrong information and on the rare occasion explode.

They don’t have They have no Trip supervisor*: Unlike humans

any emotions which avoids many mental problems such as: depression, being home sick, turning insane, out bursts of anger (avoiding fights inside the space craft), feelings of stress and anxiety which means they perform their daily duties with out pressure on their “shoulders” helping them to concentrate.

emotions. Without emotion you cant write relate to people around you or if you are the scribe for the ship you cant put emotion into your writing making it harder for the people down on earth to relate to what Is happening up here in space making them less interested in space books*. With out emotion you cant take into account what is best for the team’s physiological health.

They can be programmed to know exactly what their company wants, wont make any exceptions to the set standards and rules, will say exactly what happened in the air craft without any memory loss if something doesn’t go according to the companies agreement and need court evidence. They need less time to recharge then humans need to sleep so they can start their daily duties earlier.

robots cant improvise if not told what to do this means if the space craft or mission is in a crisis they would not know how to react causing the crew to loose members of the team in a vital moment.

No need for oxygen. If you have no need of oxygen you can go out of the spacecraft while out in space without having to carry oxygen. This

Robots can only do what they are programmed to do therefore the have to intuition and cannot perform duties, split second if the team is in some sort of crisis. They cannot adapt

Assembly crew: robots can with stand a great amount of weight on them so they can lift whole asteroids only with 2 robots, when assembling things you have

Check up date* Every X amount of days robots have to have a check up this means that is takes time away from the initial mission makes them loose time

dramatically reduces the amount of oxygen tanks that they have to take into space reducing costs and storage needed.

to a situation they have not been programmed to understand and perform in.

to follow a list of instructions without making a single mistake robots are programmed the exact instructions and are able to follow them step by step. Will do all there work without complaining and they don’t need oxygen tanks making it easier for them to move around.

and is the check up date they find something wrong or need to replace a part it can be very costly.

The expert*: robots come in many shapes and sizes depending on what job they have to fulfil the shape of the expert robot is and small computer screen that has legs and arms with small clampers as hands they also can scan info motion and artefacts with there eyes that are located at the top of their head.

With the ability to collect new information and artefacts that they find and store them for later use they will have all the information they need. With the computer screen on their bodies humans can quickly look up all the information they need. With legs they can follow you around so you don’t have to head back into the space ship to see what information they have on the artefact or mission plan.

How long it will take

Our mission if everything goes to plan will take 150 days but we do have enough suppliers for 200 days (in case of emergencies). It will take us ten days to get to our destination and 1o days to get back. The 130 days that we will be up there are separated into different parts. 30 to collect all of our supplies from other space shuttles (explained later), 40 to construct, place our mining machine onto the asteroid and mine the asteroid, 25 days to refine the metal into a compact powder and send in small packages back to space (money saving), each ten days they will have a break to relax so the crew will not become overwhelmed with the task at hand, 12 days to explore the rest of the asteroid and collect more information and 10 days to pack and collect everything needed.

What we will take and what will already be there

On our trip up to our destination we will only take the bare minimum: 40 liters of water, 12 kilos of dehydrated food (each portion will have the right amount of minerals and vitamins to keep the human asteroids sustained), 1000 hours of charge for the robots, 700 hours of electricity that will power lights and computers, Enough fuel to last them the travel there and half way back, Medical supplies, 3000 hours worth of oxygen, also each crew member can bring 2 kilos worth of sentimental belongings. Three weeks before we went up 10 other space craft’s went up to supply us for what we need for the rest of our mission: Apollo 1 stores: pre-mined water, food, medical supplies and in case of emergency supplies (in case of black and power outs). Apollo 2 stores: crew members other sentimental belongings (ones that weren’t taken up with them). Apollo 3 stores: robot spare parts and other needs (such as solar panels for energy tools to fix them (if broken), a hard drive for every robot explaining how they function and how to reprogram them. Apollo 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 each stores: one fifth of the mining machine’s parts. And 3 sets of instructions on how to construct it also spare parts for the mining machine. Apollo 9, stores: the crew oxygen supply including air purifiers, gas masks, oxygen tanks and air testers.

The problems they encountered

Power outs: power outs can be a very dangerous and scary thing much like anything else when you are up in space. You loose all connection with people on earth which includes the coordinates to where your mission is landing, this forces you to a stand still until the people back in NASA can figure out how to solve it and getting it back up and running. Fortunately for those whoa re thinking not the heat stop working? Well there is a back up heater that can be manually turned on inside the spacecraft. On the tenth day p in space on the 29/11/2212 at 8 am the Verbatim. They were yet to arrive at their mission point and were forced into a stand still. The reason for this power out was because someone from earth was trying to illegally hack into the computer network and share private details on the web NASA was forced to put the Verbatim into a power out to save their documents. Luckily they have caught the hacker and he is now facing court orders. The Verbatim was in power out for 12 hours and it set them back a whole day in their very important mission. Missing equipment: when you are in space everything thing is important every little thing counts as demonstrated in Apollo 13 when one small bolt caused the mission to fail. On the 40th day on the 26/12/2212 when the assembly crew was inspecting the last part of Apollo 8 they found that 6 bolts where missing that were to construct the mining equipment unfortunately they didn’t have any spares and had to ask a neighboring mission if they had any in there spares. Fortunately thy did and sent them over they arrived 6 days after setting the mission back yet another 6 days.

Home sickness: everyone in some point in of their lives has felt home sick. Whether you’re having a sleep over, in a different country or out in space! Each human crewmember encountered homesickness at some point in this mission. They different things that can cause home sickness is: not seeing family and friends for a long time, getting letters from home, something big happening at home and you not being able to be apart of it and missing familiar surroundings. Each person has his or her own way of not being home sick. Some write letters and video chat, some occupy themselves so they don’t think about it and gradually forget and if the sickness becomes serious and they go into a state of depression there are pills that the can take that are part of the medicine provided. Muscle loss: when there is zero gravity you don’t need to use your muscles as much and they become weak. A way to prevent then is wearing extra weights when you are doing everyday activities even if it is a tiny amount it is still adding to your gravitational pull.

Glossary TRIP SUPERVISOUR: Now like everything nasa’s missions are often fund by companies that want to get something

out of it. To make sure the NASA obeys the company’s regulations the company sends a trip supervisor. SPACE BOOKS: Today students study space as a compulsive subject for all of primary school and up to year 9 in high school. Within the study of space they study certain missions, the solar systems, how different objects in space are used to benefit humans, the likely hood of ufo’s or “aliens”, and the roles and difficulty of being a human astronaut. In this case they would be study how asteroids affect humans and what difficulties human asteroids go threw in space. ROBOT CHECK UP DATE: Each robots has a certain amount of days before they have to be checked my a robot technician to see if there isn’t any major or minor malfunction in there system they can easily turn the robot off before it causes and problems with the missions they are assigned to. THE EXPERT: The expert is the person on the mission who knows everything they are going into to space to recover. In this case “the expert” is the Peron who knows every fact about palladium because that is the thing that we are going into space to collect, discover and find even more information about. SPACE DUST: They have found that there is dust in space that can seep into clothing if it is not completely air tight this can cause problems with the body like rashes as for robots it can mess with their mechanics.

COMPATIBLE: This means that they are able to communicate with the team properly without making major mistakes, are able to get along with every one, can both take and give orders when needed, can think on the spot (if they are human or the information need to think on the spot is programmed into them if they are a robot) and are mentally and physically healthy (no mental illness that could effect the trip and no physical problems that would effect the trip also are free of any flues and other sicknesses) # Slashing costs: this is a true fact from a website that is considering mining in space