High-Level Project Summary
In the first section you will find a short introduction and a sentence about knowledge, in the second section you will find the five main problems of space with their respective description, in the third section focuses mainly on the risks that humans may have in space travel and also some solutions to these risks, in the fourth section is the effects of some living beings in conditions similar to those of space travel and finally in the fifth section is our proposal of biological superhero.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
We read and extracted the most relevant information from the resources provided by NASA in order to translate it into a web page through the WIX platform, then with all this information and with information extracted from websites such as NASA science, BBC NEWS, BBVA mind to create our biological superhero. The benefits we obtained were a knowledge of two great areas such as biology and astronomy, besides being able to create a strong and dynamic group during the development of the challenge. We hope to fully meet all the requirements of the challenge so that we had the opportunity for NASA to publicize the website created for anyone to know how amazing it is all the processes of space travel and life in space. We use WIX and Paint 3D
Space Agency Data
For the elaboration of the web page, the resources provided by the official page of NASA were taken into account, each resource corresponded to a section of the web page: The NASA human research roadmap, which was used to know all the negative implications of making a space trip; 5 dangers of space flight, was used to give an idea of the risks involved in space flight; NASA's genelab data repository, was used to review the different animals and plants that were carried on space travel and what were the reactions they had under that environment.
https://humanresearchroadmap.nasa.gov/risks/
https://science.nasa.gov/biological-physical/programs/space-biology
Hackathon Journey
An experience that was too enriching for our social and academic part, since it allowed us to learn about other activities outside our fields of knowledge, and at the same time, discover this type of events that are offered to be able to participate from ideas and projects.
On the other hand, we learned that the problems and unknowns that humanity has in terms of space have endless difficulties but that they can be solved by generating these events so that the student community can contribute brilliant ideas that are reflected in the next missions of these space agencies.
Our team took on this challenge because, in our opinion, it is one of the most important and that the fewest solutions have been proposed, since we know that we are not yet capable of making long trips with a crew, for this reason the idea of generating organisms that can survive against the ostile conditions of space through the help of biology was what amazed us the most.
This group was focused on extracting as much information as possible from the NASA databases so that our website would be a site of good information, as well as being able to inform in a very brief way but it will be accurate the general ideas of this type of problems. such as all the complications and difficulties involved in making an interstellar trip.
In particular, we want to thank the Sergio Arboleda University for making an event of this magnitude possible in its facilities and allowing us to carry out our ideas and project, which we believe may be one of the many solutions to the problem we have faced.
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