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Pesquet is the youngest member of the European Astronaut Corps, and the last of the ESA astronaut class of 2009 to arrive in space. On 10 June 2014, NASA announced that Pesquet would serve as an aquanaut aboard the Aquarius underwater laboratory during the NEEMO 18 undersea exploration mission, which began on 21 July 2014 and lasted nine days.
During the Skylab 2 mission, astronauts Conrad and Kerwin successfully opened a solar panel that had not automatically deployed after launch. To perform this task, the astronauts trained underwater in the Neutral Buoyancy Simulator at the Marshall Space Flight Center. However, due to differences between the design of the mock-up used for ...
NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations, or NEEMO, [1] is a NASA analog mission that sends groups of astronauts, engineers and scientists to live in the Aquarius underwater laboratory, the world's only undersea research station, for up to three weeks at a time in preparation for future space exploration. [2]
Underwater Astronaut Trainer (UAT) [ edit ] The UAT is located at the United States Space and Rocket Center , home of Space Camp and Space Academy, in Huntsville, AL. 30 feet wide and 24 feet deep, it was designed by Homer Hickam , a NASA engineer famous for writing Rocket Boys , adapted into the film October Sky .
The term aquanaut derives from the Latin word aqua ("water") plus the Greek nautes ("sailor"), by analogy to the similar construction "astronaut".The word is used to describe a person who stays underwater, breathing at the ambient pressure for long enough for the concentration of the inert components of the breathing gas dissolved in the body tissues to reach equilibrium, in a state known as ...
The new white spacesuit is engineered to allow astronauts to “withstand extreme temperatures” in shadowed regions of the moon “for at least two hours”
In July 2004, Patrick served as an aquanaut during the NEEMO 6 mission aboard the Aquarius underwater laboratory, living and working underwater for ten days. [5] In August 2007, he served as the commander of the NEEMO 13 mission, living underwater for another ten days. [6] Patrick retired from the NASA Astronaut Corps in May 2012. [7] [2]
Gernhardt served as an aquanaut on the first NEEMO (NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations) crew aboard the Aquarius underwater laboratory in October 2001. [7] In April 2005, he was the commander of the NEEMO 8 mission. [8] [9] Gernhardt drove the lunar rover prototype at President Barack Obama's inaugural parade on January 20, 2009. [10]