By Richard Bammer
Houston did not have a problem, but the budding physicists and engineers in Valerie Blanchard’s Orchard Elementary third-graders did.
Can an “astronaut” (a raw egg in this case) survive an 8-to-12-foot drop to the moon’s surface (the multipurpose room floor) in a capsule (say, an empty plastic liter soda bottle stuffed with cotton balls or paper) that you have designed and built?