NASA Innovative Mars Habitat Design Program @ MIT – Summer 2012

This project aims to team undergraduate and high school students together in a highly collaborative, concurrent engineering environment aimed at developing innovative solutions to the challenge of supporting a crew of 6 astronauts on Mars for 500 days. The project will occur over the summer & fall of 2012, starting with a 1 week workshop held at MIT. Following this, the MIT students will work along-side high school teachers, as project managers for their teams, each consisting of 5-6 high school students for every undergraduate student. This will occur in collaboration with subject matter experts from NASA and academia, who will be connected via a virtual platform. This project will develop teaching content which will evolve into an undergraduate course on Space Logistics.