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Offworld Away Team Training Half A Century Ago: Apollo 12

Astronauts Charles Conrad Jr. and Alan L. Bean train for their upcoming Apollo 12 lunar landing mission. Here they are entering a simulated lunar surface area near Flagstaff, Arizona.

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Away Team Practice: NASA Field Geology Training Prepares Artemis Mission Support Teams

NASA engineers, managers, and flight directors recently traded their cubicles and conference rooms for an ancient volcanic field in the northern Arizona desert to participate in a field geology course […]

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FathomVerse Mobile Game Inspires A New Wave Of Ocean Exploration

Editor’s note: What would be interesting to see is an add-on to this cool MBARI app that allows you to imagine biota in the seas of Europa and Enceladus and […]

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Offworld Biology Research Facilities: Life Science Glovebox In ISS Kibo Module

NASA astronaut and Expedition 70 Flight Engineer Loral O’Hara treats brain cell-like samples inside the Kibo laboratory module’s Life Science Glovebox aboard the International Space Station.

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Away Team Field Test Of WATSON Biosignature Tricorder In Greenland

During 2019 field tests near Greenland’s Summit Station, a high-elevation remote observing station, the WATSON (Wireline Analysis Tool for the Subsurface Observation of Northern ice sheets) instrument is put through […]

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