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Soft Landing Challenge

3 minutes 26 seconds

Now Playing As: Captioned (English) (change)

Cars use airbags. Packages use airbags. Why shouldn't eggs use airbags too? Students model NASA's airbag landing system in this activity from "Design Squad Nation." They design and build protective covers made of balloons to protect an egg dropped from a height of three feet. Their systems model the airbag landing systems used by three NASA Mars missions. The students use the engineering design process, apply a variety of science concepts, and learn about NASA's exploration of the solar system. Part of the "Design Squad Nation" series.

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Runtime: 3 minutes 26 seconds

Topic: Science
Subtopic: Astronomy, Physics, Space Sciences
Grade/Interest Level: 3 - 8
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Release Year: 2013
Producer/Distributor: PBS Learning Media
Series: Design Squad Nation
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Illustration image of a satellite. Caption: Juno is an unmanned deep-space mission

Slit screen of a person in a virtual reality suit and the computer representation of her body. Caption: It actually recognizes my skeleton based on these different markers.

Space rocket launching as seen from below. Caption: I want to contribute to the first manned mission to Mars.

Robot with logos for NASA and GM. Caption: that we developed to assist astronauts in space

Astronaut in a space suit working on a machine. Caption: Training takes place in the neutral buoyancy lab.

Person placing a magnet to one side of the path directly in front of a ramp. A dotted line projects the path of an object that will move from the ramp and curve toward the magnet. Caption: Let's place the magnet somewhere to alter the marble's course.

Person holding a magnet above a pile of metal shavings. Some of the metal shavings are adhering to the magnet. Caption: that exert a force on metal objects when they're nearby.

Cardboard pieces cut and attached together to resemble robotic arms attempting to pick up rocks. Caption: Let's see if these robotic arms can pick up some space rocks.

Four people in a yard holding balloons. One is on a ladder. Caption: Five, four, three, two, one.

Person holding a paper cup with rubber bands and binder clips wrapped around a tubular object. Caption: (Nate) There's lots of ways of getting the straw into the potato.