Spacecraft Human: Integrating Health and Wellness into STEM Education

摘要

A spacecraft is an integrated, self-sustaining structure made of many subsystems working continuously in concert to achieve its mission - much like a human. Imagining the human body as a spacecraft allows for many analogies between two nominally vastly different fields, allowing for students to connect to spacecraft design and engineers to connect with themselves. Spacecraft Human is a yoga class for the space nerd, an intersectional education tool that shows the similarities between health and engineering: the human as a spacecraft. This class was developed for scientists and engineers at NASA Ames Research Center. It takes a systems engineering and health conscious approach to government mandated ergonomic activities, applicable for outreach, team building exercises, and for teachers to integrate health, wellness, and mindfulness into academic studies. Join Spacecraft Human to charge your batteries, cycle your power, adjust your attitude, conduct a structural analysis, download your data, and communicate with ground control and deep space.