I recently got a heads up about a Kickstarter campaign to support development of the “Futuristic Space-Based Action Adventure Game” Intergalactic Expedition by ImaginEpic.
The main objective of the game is to travel to Titan, one of Saturn’s moons. The goal is to set up colonization to explore further into space. By utilizing renewable energy sources such as wind or hydroelectric power and utilizing water from the moon Rhea, this colony would give the resources required to travel and explore the outer most planets of our solar system. We wanted to use Titan because of its similarity to Earth in terms of landscape and composition (besides it being nitrogen-based opposed to carbon based)
See the following video for an overview and their Kickstarter page for details:
One of the most famous junior testing astronauts was a 14 year old boy named Kevin Kelly. He and groups of dedicated youth tested the limits of survival in a space capsule and led the way to our landing on the Moon. This October 30, 1968 story in Current Science the outlines these heroic efforts. Unfortunately this coverage was limited to a newspaper distributed in classrooms so few recognize this hero today.
Kevin spent a grueling 336 hours in a test capsule in order to prove that the human body was capable of a flight to the Moon. By locating the expensive test apparatus in the basement of a suburban house they were able to avoid harmful media exposure during the testing.
The Current Science article went on to describe other projects by student teams who simulated multi-day Gemini and Apollo missions.