# Submission kit — Echoes of Space **Prepared:** 14 November 2026 **Challenge:** NASA Space Apps 2026 — *Abandoned but not Forgotten: Storytelling about NASA’s Discarded Equipment on the Moon and Mars* ## Project name Echoes of Space ## Summary (draft, 127 words) Echoes of Space is an interactive virtual memorial to the spacecraft and equipment that remain after their missions. Visitors explore twelve NASA mission stories spanning the Moon, Mars, and deep space, from the Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicles and Sojourner to Pioneer 10, Dawn, and the Mars rovers. Each station combines NASA-sourced mission facts—what the spacecraft did, what science it enabled, and what remains—with an AI-generated painting or sculpture concept made for this project. A prominent central NASA InSight centerpiece presents the YouTube video “Sounds of Mars: NASA’s InSight Senses Martian Wind,” the official NASA mission reference, and pedestal text about the lander’s study of Mars’ interior. A team-supplied AI-generated memorial panorama introduces the walkable glass-dome gallery. By pairing accurate public records with clearly labeled art, the project helps students and space enthusiasts remember the people and discoveries behind hardware left in space, while prompting conversation about exploration, stewardship, and our lasting traces beyond Earth. ## Project link After uploading the ZIP in Cloudflare Pages, paste the entire public `https://.pages.dev` URL here and in the form. Confirm it opens without sign-in. ## Project demonstration The project website is ready to publish. The challenge form separately requires a public demo link: either a presentation of **no more than 7 slides total** or a video of **30 seconds or less**. Add that public link before submission; the website link does not automatically satisfy this demo field. ## Project details (draft) Echoes of Space is a first-person interactive memorial set in a fictional future environment. The dome, scenery and object placements are artistic and symbolic; they do not assert real trajectories or locations relative to one another. Mission facts and reported final hardware locations come from the linked NASA records. The memorial is built as a circular glass-dome gallery. Its original AI-generated panorama is fitted to the curved dome and paired with softly animated aurora ribbons. Visitors walk between twelve mission stations with the keyboard or on-screen touch arrows and turn their view by dragging with a mouse or finger. Selecting a station from the collection menu walks the visitor to the exhibit. Clicking a painting or nearby wall from a distance also starts a walk; a second click at the display opens its story and NASA data. Each station combines an artwork created for this project today, a mission record, its scientific legacy, the final location of its hardware, and direct NASA source links. A highly visible, illuminated NASA InSight centerpiece occupies the center of the gallery. Its large screen invites visitors to watch the YouTube video about Martian wind; a pedestal explains InSight’s study of the planet’s deep interior, and the official NASA mission page is linked beside the player. The video opens only after visitor input, with a fullscreen option, a prominent top Return to the memorial button, and visible instructions for pressing Escape. Ambient music pauses near the centerpiece and while the YouTube video overlay is open. Available sculpture concepts can be inspected in 3D. A clickable Astro Legacy Brazil display inside the gallery provides a reserved space for future team information. The animated Echoes of Space logo identifies the site. The NASA Mission Ledger calculates a comparison from the twelve mission records: nine describe hardware left on a surface, while three describe spacecraft still in orbit or traveling outward. The highlight installation is not counted as another mission record. The entrance panorama is AI-generated team art, visibly disclosed in the page. Mission paintings and sculpture concepts also carry visible SI labels and are artistic interpretations, not NASA photography or engineering documentation. The intended benefit is to make mission records approachable for students and casual space enthusiasts while prompting reflection on the artifacts and environmental traces left by exploration. The memorial distinguishes equipment intentionally left on the Moon, Mars or an asteroid from orbital debris. It asks what responsibilities accompany human traces beyond Earth and honors the discoveries and people represented by those traces. This reflection complements the challenge; it does not replace the required NASA resource use. The design pairs a warm, quiet gallery with concise sourced facts so that the memorial tone does not replace scientific context. The project was created as a static site using HTML, CSS and JavaScript, with Google Fonts and Google’s model-viewer web component for interactive models. Mission data and imagery were sourced from NASA and the NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive. Project paintings, sculpture concepts, music, code and some copy were created or assisted with generative AI; disclosures appear in the memorial and accompanying metadata. The project was prepared on 14 November 2026. ## Super Intelligence (SI) disclosure Select the applicable SI use options in the submission form (at minimum image generation, audio generation and code generation; text generation if available as a separate option). Suggested disclosure: > Generative AI was used to create the memorial paintings, sculpture concepts, Echoes of Space website logo, Astro Legacy Brazil emblem, website code, and some project copy. The two logos were created by the team on 14 November 2026 and are visibly labeled in the site. The AI-generated artwork is visibly labeled in the memorial. “Echoes Across the Stars” was generated with Suno AI on 14 November 2026; the memorial and its audio metadata disclose this. No NASA logos, flags, mission identifiers, or other NASA branding were used in generated content. NASA photographs and mission information are separately linked and credited to NASA. The supplied image and sculpture archives do not identify the image-generation service by name. If the form or judges ask for a specific provider, enter the actual image tool used by the team rather than guessing. The site itself uses the AI attribution supplied with the artwork files. ## NASA data and resources (add these in the NASA Data section) | Link text | Full URL | |---|---| | Apollo 15 Lunar Module ascent stage — NSSDCA catalog record 1971-063C | https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1971-063C | | NASA Apollo 15 mission summary (identifies 1971-063C and lunar impact) | https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/static/history/SP-4029/Apollo_15a_Summary.htm | | NASA NSSDCA Apollo lunar impact sites (Apollo 15 LM impact data) | https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo_impact.html | | NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive (NSSDCA) catalog | https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/ | | Lunar Roving Vehicle — NASA history | https://www.nasa.gov/history/alsj/a15/a15.lrv.html | | Apollo 15 — NASA | https://science.nasa.gov/mission/apollo-15/ | | Dawn — NASA | https://science.nasa.gov/mission/dawn/ | | Ingenuity Mars Helicopter — NASA | https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-2020-perseverance/ingenuity-mars-helicopter/ | | InSight — NASA | https://science.nasa.gov/mission/insight/ | | Kepler — NASA | https://science.nasa.gov/mission/kepler/ | | NEAR Shoemaker — NASA | https://science.nasa.gov/mission/near-shoemaker/ | | Pioneer 10 — NASA | https://science.nasa.gov/mission/pioneer-10/ | | Mars Exploration Rovers: Spirit and Opportunity — NASA | https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-exploration-rovers-spirit-and-opportunity/ | | Mars Pathfinder / Sojourner — NASA | https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-pathfinder/ | | Viking 1 — NASA | https://science.nasa.gov/mission/viking-1/ | | Viking 2 — NASA | https://science.nasa.gov/mission/viking-2/ | ## Space Agency Partner & Other Data (suggested entries) | Link text | Full URL | |---|---| | Google model-viewer (interactive 3D web component) | https://modelviewer.dev/ | | Google Fonts (DM Sans and Playfair Display) | https://fonts.google.com/ | | Suno AI (audio-generation tool; music composed for this project) | https://suno.com/ | | Sounds of Mars: NASA InSight Martian wind video — YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT50Q_Zbf3s | | meshoptimizer / gltfpack (open-source optimization tool for the Spirit sculpture) | https://github.com/zeux/meshoptimizer | | Project-team AI-generated paintings, sculpture concepts and logos (team-created 14 November 2026; no public source URL supplied) | Enter the public project-art source or team credit if the challenge form requires a URL | The project uses no third-party stock music, artwork or NASA logo. If the original AI artwork provider has a public tool URL, add it to the form. All memorial facts are linked to NASA sources above and at the relevant station. The exact Apollo 15 NSSDCA record is used in the Apollo exhibit’s NASA Data tab: it is identified as the lunar module ascent stage (not the rover), connected to NASA’s reported lunar impact, and distinguished from the three Lunar Roving Vehicles grouped in that station. The central video is embedded from YouTube and identified as “Sounds of Mars: NASA’s InSight Senses Martian Wind”; the InSight centerpiece links to NASA’s official mission page. Video URL, mission reference, and player behavior are recorded in `assets/videos/video-credit.json`. The memorial ledger compares final-location categories from all twelve mission records; the highlight installation is outside that count. The reflective text explicitly distinguishes surface equipment and planned lunar impacts from debris in Earth orbit. ## Final submission checklist - [ ] Upload `echoes-of-space-cloudflare.zip` to Cloudflare Pages Direct Upload. - [ ] Open the public Pages URL in a private browser window and add it to the form. - [ ] Publish and link the separate demo (maximum 7 slides, or video maximum 30 seconds). - [ ] Paste the NASA resource rows and other-source rows into the form with full URLs. - [ ] Select all SI tools used by the team and review the AI disclosure for accuracy. - [ ] Confirm the team can agree to the originality, rights, and terms declarations. - [ ] Check that the memorial and demonstration are accessible without a password or account. Interior ambience: “Celestial Memory”, AI-generated with Suno AI, plays quietly inside the memorial. “Echoes Across the Stars” plays at the entrance. Both are credited in assets/audio/audio-credit.json.