Our team was formed by the passion to educate and excite the general public about going back to the moon. We wanted to combine art and computer science to create an interactive website to excite people about going back to the moon. The attraction to the artistic perspective of this project stems from the concept that art is a universal language, which can be interpreted by anyone. Our goal is to have our interactive website reach as many people as possible, and to have just many people excited about going to the moon.

To achieve our goal, we started creating a website that lets the user decide if they want to go to the moon, the International Space Station, or stay on Earth. Ultimately the end goal is getting the user to select the door that goes to the moon. Once they select the door to the moon, they will be directed to picking which colony they want to be a part of. The colonies are represented by a drawing of an astronaut, which one of our members drew, and another member uploaded on the website. Sounds were also added, such as a white noise, to give the user a more realistic feeling. The sound effects were edited and cropped by one of our team members. Next, after selecting which colony the user wants to be a part of, they are taken to an info graphic about life in the outpost. At the end of the info graphic the user will click again, and be taken to a continuous stream of photos that will also have a story being told consecutively. The story gives snippets of people’s experience watching the moon landing 50 years ago, and an interview with Neil Armstrong.

Challenges that our team faced were going through NASA’s audio files and selecting which ones were most useful, then importing/cropping the files to work for our website. We wanted to create a montage of different voices to accompany the images of the moon, so we hoped to capture the diversity of experiences people had but also project what that future moment would be like for people of the Earth in 2024. Frequently, we ran into problems with the website functioning properly, but our maintenance technician and computer scientist (two of our team members) exceeded our expectations of our website prototype. Another issue we ran into was not being able to elaborate on two of the doors. We wanted to put all of our focus on going back to the moon, for the weekend.

Our future aspirations are to finish the other two doors. When the user enters the first door (Stay on Earth), we want have sounds playing of things they would and would not miss remaining on Earth. We also want to show images/videos of things they would be missing out on while on Earth. For example, if they stay on Earth they will miss out on the zero gravity effect and the amazing view from the moon. On the other hand, if they stay on the Earth they will get to hear sounds like rain and the tides, but also hear traffic and thunder storms. For the third door (International Space Station), it will have a brief statement such as, "You are 25 years old and are boarding the ISS." Next, a stream of images of the passing the planets will go by. In the bottom of the box it will have a clock, showing how much time has passed while traveling pass the other planets. These two doors allow the user to see different perspectives of not going back to the moon.

https://tinyurl.com/moon2024

Resources:

https://ia801700.us.archive.org/4/items/Expedition36/_05-16_13_EXP36_Inflight-Event_with_Google-Plus-Hangout_and_Star-Trek-cast-members.wav

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