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Established. 2001. (2001) Website. www.nasa.gov /mission /neemo /. 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 ...
The Scott Carpenter Space Analog Station was designed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as a seafloor research station—or underwater habitat.It was designed by NASA Aquanaut, Dennis Chamberland and Marine Engineer, Joseph M. Bishop and named in honor of the Mercury project astronaut and SEALAB (US Navy) aquanaut M. Scott Carpenter.
Aquanaut Josef Schmid working outside the Aquarius underwater laboratory in 2007.. An aquanaut is any person who remains 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 saturation.
They may be astronauts, but first, they're aquanauts. Before they go to the International Space Station, NASA astronauts head the other direction -- to the bottom of the ocean. They dive down to ...
Satoshi Furukawa. Satoshi Furukawa (古川 聡, Furukawa Satoshi, born April 4, 1964) is a Japanese surgeon and JAXA astronaut. Furukawa was assigned to the International Space Station as a flight engineer on long-duration missions Expedition 28 / 29 (2011) and Expedition 69 / 70 (2023-2024).
SEALAB. SEALAB. SEALAB I. General information. Type. Research Station. SEALAB I, II, and III were experimental underwater habitats developed and deployed by the United States Navy during the 1960s to prove the viability of saturation diving and humans living in isolation for extended periods of time.
Crew Surgeon. Josef F. Schmid[2][3] (born 6 July 1965) is a German-American physician, NASA flight surgeon and a major general in the United States Air Force Reserves. [2] He served as an aquanaut on the joint NASA- NOAA NEEMO 12 underwater exploration mission in May 2007. [4][5] On 8 October 2021 he became one of the first humans to be ...
Dennis Chamberland, elected a Fellow of the New York Explorers Club in 1991, is an aquanaut, was Mission Commander for seven NASA underwater missions, and designed and built the NASA Scott Carpenter Space Analog Station underwater habitat. Following his role as a United States Naval Officer and after completing graduate studies at his OSU alma ...