NASA Administrator Charles Bolden was speaking with astronaut Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger, commander of the 16th NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) mission, and her fellow crewmate Timothy Peake of the European Space Agency Wednesday, June 20 as they performed their final “spacewalk” of the mission, 63 feet below the ocean’s surface. The NEEMO 16 crew has [...]
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An international crew of aquanauts is settling into its home on the ocean floor, where the team will spend 12 days testing concepts for a potential asteroid mission. The expedition is the 16th excursion of the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO). The crew of four began its mission in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric [...]
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A team of astronauts and scientists who are living and working on the ocean floor as part of a simulated trip to an asteroid are nearing the… (Space) Source: Space, October 26 , 2011;
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Journalists will have the opportunity to cover the 15th NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations, or NEEMO, from up close or afar. The mission was originally scheduled to start Oct. 17, but tropical storm conditions in the area of the undersea laboratory required a delay. Journalists are invited to visit the Mobile Mission Control Center, which [...]
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An international astronaut crew may be ready to voyage to the bottom of the sea on a simulated trip to an asteroid, but Mother Nature – it seems – is not. The crew’s planned splashdown on Oct. 17 has been delayed to later this week due to stormy weather at the Florida dive site, NASA [...]
