Vertical Dunk

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.

You only need net with holes and something as a ball.

The game exercises the players precision with the effort to dunk the ball, its muscles as everybody need to move constantly and sometimes in different ways, strategy as you need to find each player weakness and make it harder for him to dunk the ball, physical contact with other players that helps in personal relationship outside of the game by breaking the contact barrier that humans have.

A simple paper dunk game as example.

Image attribution to: Rhys Asplundh