About this course:

This course is for teachers and their students who want to participate in the NASA Space Settlement Design Contest. At the end of eight weeks the students will be able to complete their project ready to be sent to NASA.

This course is aligned with the U.S. National Science Standards. The course does not expect any previous background in orbital space settlements or project based learning. We will provide the teachers and their students all the necessary tools including evaluation tools. No class credit is offered nor implied in this free course. The course designed to be self guided learning and at present we can offer only minimal support in its implication. Your comments and feedback are essential to improve this course.

This course:

• meets U.S. National Science Standards
• is sel-paced and self guided
• will enable every student to create a design project suitable to enter the NASA Orbital Space Settlement Design Contest
• will give opportunity to every student to apply their prior knowledge in science, mathematics, social studies, engineering and art.

You will need:

• a Macintosh or Windows computer.
• Internet connection
• Java enabled Netscape or Internet Explorer browser. Problems have been experienced on Macintosh using Netscape 4.x.
• Shockwave/Flash Plug-in is valuable but not required