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RE: NEEMO: Where NASA astronauts train for deep space missions...in an underwater lab?
Fun reading about this. Underwater astronaut training looks like a lot of hard work, but also very interesting and enjoyable. I've always thought it's amazing how much thought has to go into planning basic motor tasks that we normally take for granted. If I was rich I'd love to buy my way onto an ISS mission with the Russians or something.
Isn't there some ongoing competition to win a seat on a planned one-way mission to Mars being put together by some private company? I wonder whatever happened with that. I remember hearing about it on the news and thinking I'd sign up if only I didn't have any family to worry about, and then I lost track of it.
There was. "Mars One". But of course it didn't amount to anything. It is doubtful whether Bas Lansdorp, the man behind it all, ever expected it to.
Too bad that fizzled out, but at least it's encouraging that people are thinking along those lines and the public is receptive to it. The groundwork is being laid so that when the time comes, hopefully there will be enough political will in place for a real mission to occur. It's only a matter of time.