Tag: NEA
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Long duration ISS crew to lay the foundations for BEO missions
NASA and Roscosmos have selected two of their best astronauts to spend a one year period on the International Space Station (ISS), providing vital data into how the human body copes with long duration space flight. The findings will help both agencies to prepare countermeasures to the effects crews may suffer from during long flights…
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NEEMO 16 begins – Real NEA mission outline continues to be worked
The international crew of the NEEMO 16 (NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations) mission have begun their mission at the Aquarius underwater habitat in Key Largo, Florida. The 10 day mission will simulate Near Earth Asteroid (NEA) exploration procedures, although a real mission remains a notional and undefined target. NEEMO 16: NASA astronaut and former space…
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Asteroid mission planning continues as NEEMO 16 selects an international crew
NASA, ESA and JAXA astronauts will all be involved in the upcoming NEEMO 16 (NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations) mission. The asteroid training mission – set to take place near the Florida coastline in June – comes at a time NASA managers continue to refine their deep space plans. Missions To An Asteroid: The underwater training exercises are staged…
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Boeing outlines new modules/technologies for Near Earth Asteroid missions
As NASA continues the early development phase of its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, contract companies of the U.S. space agency continue their push for new and innovative technologies – including Radiation Storm Shelters, Deep Space Habitats, and Solar Electric Propulsion – to be used as humankind pushes beyond the confines of planet Earth toward…