NASA Tries Underwater Spacewalking
January 11, 2007 @ 08:32 AM (EST)
Source: Happynews.com
The NEEMO experience parallels space flight in several ways. Like a spacewalk, a dive is planned in advance with a series of objectives in mind and a timeline for reaching each goal. Also like a spacewalk, the duration of each dive is limited by the consumables available to the participants outside their safe havens. Participants often mention the analog of deep-sea diving to spacewalking...
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