Bungee Snatch

There is a great deal of interest from national space agencies to go to the Moon and Mars. ESA wants to go to the Moon and establish a village there. NASA wants to go to Mars. Astronauts and Cosmonauts from all over the world are already living aboard the ISS. What can they do in their free time? It can’t be all about reading books or game play on computers. Think of new sports or games that could take into account the low gravity (e.g. a space lacrosse game, extreme basketball). What about real or virtual experiences involving the Apollo 11 landing site on the Moon? Or following the paths of Sojourner, Spirit or Curiosity on Mars using a form of cross-country skiing? Think of new ways for to astronauts to use their free time. To present your results develop an app that makes use of virtual reality tools.

Bungee snatch is a game for 4 people in groups of 2 who are strapped to a bungee or elastic opposite to their partner. Each team moves around with a token in their hand trying to put it on one of their goals or tries to steal a token off the opponent's goal. To provide astronauts with resistance training we added the bungees so if your partner moves up you have to go down. To win the game you need to have all the tokens on your team's goals.