
The aquanauts were supported by an extensive team of support divers and ground-based personnel to monitor tasks and guide the astronauts. Only 2.8 square miles in size, Beachwood is a densely. The underwater world offers similar geological features to the Moon and putting ideas to the test under high workload, real-world stress, and the unexpected problems that come with field work is one of the only ways to iron out any kinks in new exploration approaches and techniques. Today Beachwood attracts many young families, especially commuters to jobs further north of Ocean County. The mission also judged whether the new location off the coast of California is suitable as a stand-in for environments astronauts may encounter on the Moon. The commercial deep-diving ExoSuit was tested for its dexterity for analogue missions, while the mini submarine simulated the role of a pressurized rover for geological traverses.

Mission objectives were to test new technology and techniques.

Unlike usual NEEMO missions underwater, in which the "aquanauts" spend two weeks living at the Aquarius base off the coast of Florida, the astronauts resurfaced each day.

to access concepts for undersea training that will aid our next steps on the Moon.įrom 21 to 28 August, ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet joined NASA astronaut Drew Feustel and Japanese astronaut Norishige Kanai as a submersible pilot for a new version of NEEMO focusing on technology, called NEEMO NXT, hosted by the University of California. Richard told Scout Warrior that the impetus for the Navy effort, called acoustic superiority, is specifically grounded in the emerging reality that the U.S. Astronauts recently took to diving with underwater suits and submersibles in the latest NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations, or NEEMO, off the coast of California, U.S.
