Asteroid training underwater: NEEMO 16 mission scheduled for June

• Asteroid training underwater: NEEMO 16 mission scheduled for June by Chris Bergin on 28 Feb, 2012 04:52
• http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2012/02/asteroid-training-neemo-16-mission-scheduled-june/
  
  Had to go back over NEEMO 15 content, NEA references, and such for the purpose of the article, but along with setting up NEEMO 16, there some new info that we're not far away from the master exploration plan
• #1 by Paul Howard on 28 Feb, 2012 05:00
• Cool!
  
  I hope NASA start covering some of these missions on NASA TV.
• #2 by Chris Bergin on 28 Feb, 2012 15:51
• Another retweet by @NASA
  
  "NASA ‏ @NASA 
  The schedule is posted! @NASA_NEEMO's 16 mission hits the water in June! go.nasa.gov/AjAX9o <---links to our article
• #3 by robertross on 28 Feb, 2012 16:18
• Very cool article Chris.
  
  I hope this mission doesn't get cut short due to weather.
• #4 by Chris Bergin on 16 Apr, 2012 22:13
• RELEASE: 12-116
  
  NASA ANNOUNCES 16TH UNDERSEA EXPLORATION MISSION DATES AND CREW
  
  WASHINGTON -- 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.
  
  "We're trying to look out into the future and understand how we'd
  operate on an asteroid," said Mike Gernhardt, NASA astronaut and
  NEEMO principal investigator. "You don't want to make a bunch of
  guesses about what you'll need and then get to the asteroid to find
  out it won't work the way you thought it would. NEEMO helps give us
  the information we need to make informed decisions now."
  
  This NEEMO expedition will focus on three areas: communication delays,
  restraint and translation techniques, and optimum crew size. The crew
  of four will spend 12 days living 63 feet below the Atlantic Ocean's
  surface on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's
  Aquarius Reef Base undersea research habitat off the coast of Key
  Largo, Fla.
  
  NASA astronaut and former space shuttle crew member Dottie M.
  Metcalf-Lindenburger will lead the crew. She will be joined by fellow
  astronauts Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and
  Timothy Peake of the European Space Agency and Cornell University
  professor Steven Squyres, who was also a NEEMO 15 crew member.
  
  To request interviews with the NEEMO 16 crew during the mission,
  contact Brandi Dean of NASA at [email protected], Rosita Suenson
  of the European Space Agency at [email protected], Akiko Niizeki
  of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency at [email protected] or
  Fred Gorell of NOAA at [email protected].
  
  The NEEMO mission is sponsored by NASA's Advanced Exploration Systems
  Program. For more information about NEEMO and the crew and links to
  follow the mission on Facebook and Twitter, visit:
  
  http://www.nasa.gov/neemo
  
  For more information about NASA analog field tests, visit:
  
  http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/analogs
  
  
• #5 by bolun on 18 Apr, 2012 16:15
• Tim Peake and Kimiya Yui will take part in NEEMO 16 mission.
  
  http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMYK2KWZ0H_index_0.html
  
  

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  ESA astronaut Timothy Peake will soon dive to the bottom of the sea to learn more about exploring space. A permanent underwater base almost 20 m below the waves off the coast of Florida will be Tim’s home for more than a week in June.
   
  The NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations, or NEEMO, allows space agencies to test technologies and research international crew behaviour for long-duration missions.
  

  
  http://www.jaxa.jp/topics/2012/04_e.html
  
  

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  JAXA will send Astronaut Kimiya Yui to the 16th NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO 16) as part of his training to stay at the International Space Station (ISS) for a prolonged period.
  
• #6 by Chris Bergin on 19 Apr, 2012 04:21
• Includes some of the above. Giving it a standalone as it's half on the exploration planning:
  
  Asteroid mission planning continues as NEEMO 16 selects an international crew
  http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2012/04/asteroid-mission-neemo16-international-crew/
• #7 by bolun on 30 Apr, 2012 11:38
• http://blogs.esa.int/astronauts/2012/04/29/neemo-16-in-search-of-an-asteroid/
  
  Training for NEEMO 16

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• #8 by bolun on 31 May, 2012 14:14
• http://www.esa.int/esaHS/SEM0G52XN2H_index_0.html
  
  and
  
  Tim Peake‏@astro_timpeake
  
  

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  Tim Peake‏@astro_timpeake
  Finished Rescue Diver training today,now just need to pack my gear and head out to Florida for NEEMO 16 mission...happy days
  

  
  
• #9 by bolun on 05 Jun, 2012 11:22
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/timpeake/7339946272/in/set-72157630054371338/
  
  NEEMO 16 Crew
  
  From left to right: Kimiya Yui (JAXA), Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger (NASA), Tim Peake (ESA), Steve Squyres (Cornell, NASA Advisory Council)
  

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• #10 by jacqmans on 06 Jun, 2012 20:16
• MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-107
  
  NASA SETS MEDIA OPPORTUNITIES FOR NEEMO UNDERSEA MISSION
  
  HOUSTON -- NASA astronaut and commander for the 16th NASA Extreme
  Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO), Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger,
  will be available for live satellite interviews while performing a
  simulated spacewalk under water. The interviews will take place
  between 8:45 and 9:45 a.m. EDT June 15. NASA will also host a media
  day June 21 in Key Largo, Fla.
  
  NEEMO sends groups of NASA employees and contractors to live for 12
  days, 63 feet below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, in the
  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Aquarius lab. The
  laboratory is located in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
  in Key Largo. For NASA, Aquarius provides a convincing analog to
  space exploration, and NEEMO crew members experience some of the same
  tasks and challenges under water as they would in space.
  
  This year's NEEMO expedition begins June 11 and will simulate a
  mission to an asteroid. The mission will focus on three areas --
  communication delays, restraint and translation techniques and
  optimum crew size. Metcalf-Lindenburger will be joined by European
  Space Agency astronaut Timothy Peake; Japan Aerospace Exploration
  Agency astronaut Kimiya Yui; and Steven W. Squyres, Goldwin Smith
  professor of astronomy at Cornell University and chairman of the NASA
  Advisory Council. Squyres also was a member of NEEMO 15.
  
  Journalists are invited to a media day where they will have the
  opportunity to tour the Mobile Mission Control Center, interview
  scientists and engineers involved in the mission and take part in a
  remote news conference with the NEEMO crew members who will be aboard
  Aquarius.
  The NASA Live Interview Media Service (LIMS) satellite will be used
  for the underwater interviews. The NASA producer will provide
  confirmed clients with LIMS satellite parameters.
  
  The interviews also will be simulcast on NASA Television, which can be
  viewed by those not participating.
  
  To request a slot in the underwater interviews with
  Metcalf-Lindenburger or to participate in the media day activities,
  reporters must contact Brandi Dean at [email protected] by 5
  p.m. CDT (6 p.m. EDT) on Wednesday, June 13.
  
  The NEEMO mission is sponsored by NASA's Advanced Exploration Systems
  Program.
  
  For more information about NEEMO and the crew, and links to follow the
  mission on Facebook and Twitter, visit:
  
  http://www.nasa.gov/neemo
  
  For NASA TV downlink, schedule and streaming video information, visit:
  
  
  http://www.nasa.gov/ntv