Astronaut training resumes at undersea lab in the Florida Keys with 5-day mission, AP “Starting Tuesday, five astronauts will spend five days living and working at the Aquarius Reef Base. While they’re underwater, they’ll be trying out an exercise device that could be used on the International Space Station and spacewalking tools.” Keith’s note: NASA Astronauts living underwater – sound familiar? NASA’s NEEMO used to do this. Not any more. […]
U.S. Budget Cuts Threaten to Sink Undersea Research Fleet, Science “Last week, researchers began to plead their case, asking lawmakers to reject an Obama Administration plan to eliminate the $4 million National Undersea Research Program (NURP), which is run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). … The program also funds investigators to work at NOAA’s Aquarius Reef Base, an underwater laboratory that sits in 18 meters of water […]
A Post-Mission Conversation With NASA NEEMO Aquanaut Steve Squyres “Cowing: Let’s go back to what we were talking about several weeks ago before you began your NEEMO mission – the idea that being there – and doing it as – opposed to intellectualizing things … Squyres: … yea, it is really different when you actually have to do it!”
A Pre-Mission Conversation With NASA NEEMO Aquanaut Steve Squyres “I had a chance to chat with NEEMO 15 crew member Steve Squyres today as he waits out some bad weather before his 13 day underwater mission begins. According to Steve its looking like Thursday before they can “splash down” and begin their mission.”