• A hundred years ago, automobiles were new.
  
• What are spacecraft? How do they work? What roads do they follow?
• We have new "senses," developed for space exploration. Are design students to be affected by ability to see in the infra-red? The ultra-violet? Gamma rays? How do these new senses work?
• How is flying to Mars different from flying to Amsterdam? How is vehicle design different?
• Designers deal constantly with advancing technology. Cell phones, medical devices... music- and imaging- CD and DVD systems... these and many other technologies have their developmental roots on the edges of robotic space flight exploration. Grasping these roots helps the smart designer stay abrest.
• We are encountering new worlds, seeing them for the first time today! Design shall not be forever earthbound.
• Location, location, location. We live on a rare and fragile planet, the companion of an average star orbiting a galaxy's central black-hole region. A wide-angle, precisely focused, perspective of our life situation is appropriate.
• How does space travel influence design?
• How does design influence space travel?
• Brilliant students will make brilliant connections.

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