Congratulations, you are now part of a team that has been given the task of designing our space station.

• This space station will circle the earth above Australia and will cooperate with other orbiting space craft and stations. To design our station firstly you need to collect pictures of both the Mir space station and the International Space Station and save them on a word processor page. Make sure that you identify each image and state where it came from.

   

• Secondly, use Kid Pix or another drawing program to create a picture of your design.

   

• Finally use any available materials to make a model of your design.

Click on the images to visit the web sites

What problems will our astronauts face living on the station ?
Find out by reading the questions and answers given by astronaut Jerry Linenger who spent 5 months in space aboard the Russian Space Station Mir in 1997.

Make a list of at least 5 problems Jerry faced.

Print out this form to use to write out the problems and solutions

 Look at the solutions to some of these problems that American scientists have come up with and present a solution for each problem on our Space Station.

 Design a rocket to travel to our Space Station.
Try some of these experiments with your team.