Extreme Underwater Mission on This Week @NASA – July 29, 2016

Extreme Under­wa­ter Mis­sion on This Week @NASA – July 29, 2016



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The 21st NASA Extreme Envi­ron­ment Mis­sion Oper­a­tions got under­way July 21 in the Flori­da Keys. NASA astro­nauts Reid Wise­man and Megan McArthur are part of the inter­na­tion­al crew of NEEMO-21 aqua­nauts per­form­ing research dur­ing the 16-day mis­sion, which takes place about 60 feet below the sur­face of the Atlantic Ocean, in the Aquar­ius habi­tat – the world’s only under­sea sci­ence sta­tion. Sim­u­lat­ed space­walks are designed to eval­u­ate tools and mis­sion oper­a­tion tech­niques that could be used on future space mis­sions. NEEMO-21’s objec­tives include test­ing a mini DNA sequencer sim­i­lar to the one NASA astro­naut Kate Rubins also will test aboard the Inter­na­tion­al Space Sta­tion, and a telemed­i­cine device that will be used for future space appli­ca­tions. The mis­sion also will sim­u­late com­mu­ni­ca­tions delays like those that would be encoun­tered on a mis­sion to Mars. Also, Space Launch Sys­tem Work Plat­forms, All-Elec­tric X‑Plane Arrives, Aster­oid Mis­sion Tech­nol­o­gy, and NASA @Comic-Con International.



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