At NASA, we spoke with a Hispanic engineer about the new Moon mission and how kids interact with the Minecraft Education Artemis Mission game.
Children from 8 years old can already fly to the Moon with their own rocket, this is possible thanks to an educational proposal from Minecraft in partnership with NASA.
At Cape Canaveral, we spoke with Michael Guzmán, a Hispanic engineer who works on the propulsion system, about the interest the Artemis mission has generated among children and what’s to come regarding the future moonwalk.
“When we say that we are going to go to the Moon to stay there, to learn to live there, that already provokes images of civilization in another world, of discovery, of exploration, which are very interesting subjects for many people,” he said. Guzman.
By starting with Orion, the space agency may have a much better understanding of how the capsule works in the harsh environment of deep space, but it certainly inspires the next generation of explorers, which is the so-called Artemis generation. .
And they experience it with the video game Minecraft Education Artemis Mission.
Laylah Bullman, executive producer of Minecraft Education, assures that “this generation must think about living not only on earth but also in space, on the Moon. And behind this game, inspire them to dream bigger.”
But before going to the moon, “it’s important for young people to know that it’s not that difficult to go to NASA. All you need is a university degree”.
They’re not just astronauts, they’re designers, they’re programmers, they’re engineers, they’re writers, they’re artists; at NASA there are police officers, there are firefighters; at NASA, there is everything.
But talking about the propulsion system that rockets need to reach the Moon, many wonder how children design in Minecraft?
To which they reply that “liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen are used; and these two together are the fuel that causes this propulsion.
In one of the buildings, NASA engineers strap the rocket to the tower that supports it, then move it down a stone path to the launch pad. It was one of the launch pads that was used for the Apollo missions and decades later it is used again, but now for the Artemis missions, with the same destination: the Moon.
“This Artemis 2 mission is going to be manned, it’s going around the moon, and with that, we’re going to show that the Orion spacecraft can get these astronauts safely and efficiently to the moon,” Guzmán says.
An inspiration, perhaps, for future space agency professionals.