Survival on the moon
Problem sheet
You are in a space craft originally scheduled to rendezvous with a mother ship on the lighted surface of the moon. Mechanical difficulties, however, have forced your ship to crash-land at a spot some 200 miles form the rendezvous point. The rough landing damaged much of the equipment aboard. Since survival depends on reaching the mother ship, the most critical items available must be chosen for the 200 mile trip.
Below are listed the 15 main items left intact after landing. Your task is to rank them in terms of their importance to your crew in its attempt to reach the mother ship. The item numbered number 1 is the most important, number 2 the second most important and so on through to 15, the least important
- Box of matches
- Food concentrate
- 50 feet of nylon rope
- Parachute silk
- Portable heating unit
- Two 45 calibre pistols
- One case dehydrated milk
- Two 100 pound tanks of oxygen
- Stellar map (of the moon's constellation)
- Life raft
- Magnetic compass
- 5 gallons water
- Signal flares
- First aid kit containing injection needles
- Solar powered FM receiver transmitter