Below, you can find the questions presented in the IdeaLab, Walking on the Moon. Alongside, the Smithsonian has posted some responses by students like you. If you would like to send your answers to the Smithsonian for posting, try out the "Try This! A Mission for You" features found within the experience.
Make a list of the three best things and the three worst things about being alone in the Command Module "Columbia" while your fellow astronauts are exploring the moon.
Three Best:
Get to know people well.
You don’t get cold.
You can talk so that they hear you clearly.
Snow, 11, England
Can get many types of fishes to eat in the ocean.
Floating in space will be nice.
Looking at the beautiful Earth and other planets.
Rajan, 11, India
Three Worst:
Very cramped.
If you get pins and needles you can’t stretch out.
No privacy.
Snow, 11, England
Hot sun can burn them.
No water to drink in the Pacific Ocean.
Many fishes can be poisonous.
Rajan, 11, India
Imagine eating your favorite food on board a weightless spacecraft. How would you do it? Choose a meal and write a step-by-step process for eating it in space!
My meal would be water, chips, pizza, and chocolate. I would drink the water by spraying it into my mouth and then just eat the rest whole.
Snow, 11, England
Look at this photo of an astronaut on the moon, and write about what you see - and what it means to you.
A man, a shadow, in his visor a rocket and a tube. The ground looks like sand, and dirt, soft and bouncy, airless.
Sammer, 11, Wisconsin
Hi. The background is tilted. There is a shiny thing in back too.
Al, 11, Earth
A man walking on the moon and having fun.
Amanda, 11, Wisconsin
I see his shadow.
Kobe, 10, Wisconsin
I see his shadow, something shining in the background.
Ray, 11, Wisconsin
A shiny reflection.
Brooke, 11, Wisconsin
Write a short story about the Apollo 11 mission:
The space mission begins as we begin our ascent towards the heavens. We're in outer space on our way towards the moon; nearly all of the space shuttle as been discarded to save fuel for the trip. Now orbiting the moon, we decide to send two men down to the moon’s surface to take a look around. After a few hours we got back together and started our descent back home. We made our splash landing in the Pacific Ocean, where we waited for the Navy to come and pick us up.
Nick, 15, Nevada
If you could write a message and leave it on a distant planet, what would you say?
We come from Planet Earth and we want to make friends with any other living beings out there.
Snow, 11, England
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