Live Simulations Featuring: FSI: Tranquility Base

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Live Simulations Featuring FSI Tranquility
Base
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What Is a Live Simulation?

• A live simulation features
• Authentic NASA data, images, and science aligned
  with NASAs mission directorates (Aeronautics
  Research, Science, Exploration Systems, and Space
  Operations).
• Students solving real-world problems in
  real-time.
• A team-based, critical-thinking, interactive
  context to complete the mission directive.
• Contact with a flight director through
  videoconferencing.

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Scenario

• The year is 2037, and NASA has established a
  lunar outpost named Tranquility Base.
• The 10 astronauts now living at Tranquility Base
  are performing a wide variety of research, such
  as testing fuel efficiencies for upcoming space
  travel.

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Your Mission

• Every two weeks the astronauts perform a routine
  check to record radiation, micrometeoroid, and
  thermal data from each of the modules. They also
  perform fire drills during this time.
• During this fire drill you will analyze simulated
  data from several sensors that had been installed
  in storage facility A.

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Scenario

• Teams of 8-10 students will analyze data and try
  to determine the cause of the simulated fire.
• The specialists will use a fire simulator to help
  them decide
• The initial conditions (parameters) when the fire
  started.
• The substance or material that caused the fire.
• The specialists will compare the results of the
  simulator with data coming from the fire drill
  scene.

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The Fire Simulator

• The specialists enter and test a set of possible
  initial parameters that might have led to the
  fire.
• The parameters the specialists test include
  volume, oxygen, heat release, and fire source.
• Because actual fires involve more conditions
  (parameters) than the four tested by the
  simulator, the simulator generates seven
  different possible results.
• The specialists must continue manipulating the
  conditions (parameters) until the simulator
  results seem to match the actual fire data.

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Team Preparation

• Members of each team will work as a specialist or
  expert in one of four roles
• Investigation
• Oxygen analysis
• Carbon dioxide analysis
• Communications
• Your team selects different initial parameters of
  the fire and runs the simulator.
• Your team compares the results of each set of
  conditions (parameters) and decides which set is
  closer to the real results coming from the base.

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Investigation Specialist

• Determine values of the conditions (parameters)
  for the fire simulator.
• Communicate these conditions (parameters) to the
  oxygen and carbon dioxide specialists.
• At the end of the mission, you will decide which
  set of conditions caused the fire.

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Oxygen Analysis Specialist

• Calculate the mean, mode, and median and then
  graph a box-and-whiskers plot for each run of the
  fire simulator.
• Provide valuable input on which value is the best
  measure of central tendency for the oxygen data.

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Carbon Dioxide Specialist

• Calculate the mean, median, and mode and then
  graph a box-and-whiskers plot for each run of the
  fire simulator.
• Provide expert advice on which value is the best
  measure of central tendency for the carbon
  dioxide data.

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Communications Specialist

• Make sure there is a steady flow of information
  to and from mission control to each team.
• Relay written and oral reports for every set of
  parameters of the simulations.
• Use the videoconferencing and computer software
  and a microphone to communicate verbally with
  mission control. You will ask mission control
  questions and answer theirs.

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Quick Review Box-and-Whiskers Plot
Data representing heat rate released by two fires
over five minutes
Data 2 Data 1

• What is the highest heat rate reported on the
  second set of data?
• What is the median on the first set of data?
• What is the first quartile on the second set of
  data?
• Which set of data is more consistent (meaning
  thatthe heat release rate is more uniform)?

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Getting Ready

• Prepare your team for the simulation by
• Reviewing the descriptions for your jobs.
• Reading your teams instructions and assigning
  tasks.
• Practicing with the online tools.
• Discussing the communication flow within the
  team.
• Good luck on your mission!