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**BJEugene** · 06-13-2012, 11:53 AM

> 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)

Good news. The accuracy of the analogy between underwater and outer space has been known since Buzz Aldrin first pointed it out. I suppse they need a bigger test rig here than NASA's indoor pool can provide.

06-13-2012, 11:53 AM	#7
BJEugene Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 497 Senior Member	> 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) Good news. The accuracy of the analogy between underwater and outer space has been known since Buzz Aldrin first pointed it out. I suppse they need a bigger test rig here than NASA's indoor pool can provide.
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