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Listening to the past and talking to the future

ESA astronaut Tim Peake recently spent 12 days underwater with three other aquanauts to look at the best ways for astronauts to explore an asteroid. Behind the scenes, a large support team was learning through experience.
No effort was spared to make the experience as realistic as possible. This Neemo mission simulated a mission to an asteroid 15 million km from Earth, almost 39 times further than the Moon.
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Aquarius Undersea Lab Slated For Shutdown

Humankinds' last permanent scientific research outpost in the sea is in danger of shutdown by 2013. The oneworldoneocean.org campaign is seeking to restore funding after NOAA program consolidation zeroed the undersea laboratory's budget.



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Open Hardware Exploration at NEEMO16

It is an amazing rapid prototyping environment that is like a Hackathon on the ocean floor. In April, we had the chance to meet Eric Stackpole and David Lang at the International Space Apps Challenge. They had submitted a challenged called "OpenROV Framework Development" with the goal to "further the development of hardware, software, and communications interfaces to visually and bathymetrically map the ocean floor, in an opensource fashion."
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UK astronaut Tim Peake aims for 'asteroid splashdown'

British astronaut Tim Peake is going on a mission to an asteroid... at the bottom of the ocean.
"Major Tim" is joining Nasa's latest Neemo expedition to an underwater lab located near Key Largo, Florida.
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NASA Fishes For Tools To Tackle Asteroid

NASA may have retired its shuttles, but it has its sights on sending astronauts deeper into space than ever before.
These voyages are years away but on Monday, astronauts are heading underwater to take part in a simulation that will help them figure out how they might explore one possible new destination: A near-Earth asteroid.
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Meet the NEEMO 16 Crew

On June 11, NASA will return to the bottom of the sea to simulate deep-space exploration activities in the 16th expedition of NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO).
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  NASA Announces 16th Undersea Exploration Mission Dates and Crew
 
An international team of aquanauts will travel again to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean to simulate a visit to an asteroid in the 16th expedition of NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO).
This year's NEEMO mission will begin June 11. It will build on lessons learned from 2011's NEEMO 15 mission and test innovative solutions to engineering challenges allowing astronauts to eventually explore asteroids.
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The NEEMO 16 mission is tentatively set for the summer of 2012.
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