Before you book, see exactly what your students fly.
Every mission is a real scenario with a real problem and no script. These pages give your instructional team the run time, the crew stations, the standards coverage, and the prerequisites, so you can decide whether it fits your calendar before you ever get on a call with us.
What is an MSA mission?
An MSA mission is a live starship bridge scenario run on your campus by a crew of five to six students, each at a defined station, for 30 to 90 minutes. The scenario adapts to crew decisions, so there is nothing to memorize and no way to fake it. The Mission Analysis System records role labeled communication and telemetry throughout, and your staff receives crew performance reports after the visit. Two mission templates are currently published for schools: The Meridian Rescue for grades 6 to 8, and Intolerance for AP and honors physics.
Two missions. Different grade bands, different jobs.
| The Meridian Rescue | Intolerance | |
|---|---|---|
| Grade band | 6 to 8, middle school | 11 to 12, AP and honors |
| Mission time | 30 minutes | 90 minutes |
| With pre brief and debrief | About 40 minutes | About 105 minutes |
| Crew size | Five to six per bridge | Five to six per bridge |
| TEKS Student Expectations | 20, across four subjects | 8, ELA and science practices |
| Prerequisite | None | Momentum, impulse, and energy covered in class |
| Best used as | Entry point, enrichment day, whole grade level | Capstone for a physics unit or STEM elective |
Both missions run on the same bridge with the same instrumentation. A campus day can mix them.
Read the whole file before you commit a day to it.
The Meridian Rescue
Grades 6 to 8 // 30 minutes // rescue under pressure
A routine patrol turns urgent when a civilian transport carrying 200 colonists comes under pirate attack. Students coordinate across five bridge stations to intercept, protect, and rescue before time runs out.
Broadest middle school coverage in our catalog: 20 TEKS Student Expectations across ELA oral language, science practices, mathematics, and technology applications. No prerequisite knowledge, which makes it the safest first booking for a campus that has never done this.
Open the Mission FileIntolerance: Liberation and Diplomacy
Grades 11 to 12 // 90 minutes // AP Physics capstone
An asteroid will strike Mars in 72 hours. The crew reaches Mars orbit, passes a physics certification exam at Research Lab R-1, and executes a precision deflection using Newtonian mechanics.
This is not a game dressed up as physics. The physics is the mission. Impulse and momentum, conservation of momentum, kinetic energy transfer, and center of mass all appear as work the crew has to do before the deflection will run.
Open the Mission FilePick by what the day has to accomplish.
You want the most students through
The Meridian Rescue. At 40 minutes a cycle, a full day moves up to 50 students through one bridge and up to 100 through two, with every crew leaving evidence behind.
You want a physics unit to land
Intolerance. Run it after momentum, impulse, and energy are taught. Students apply what they learned with a consequence attached, and you get exam results plus the crew transcript.
You are not sure yet
Start with The Meridian Rescue. It has no prerequisite, the widest standards coverage, and the shortest cycle, so a first campus day proves the concept to your staff before you scale it.
Standards alignment references describe how mission evidence maps to these frameworks. They are not endorsements by the framework owners. Full TEKS crosswalks are available in our Standards Alignment Matrix. Email [email protected] and we will send it.
Know which mission you want?
Claim the date before the calendar fills.
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