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.
Away Team
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 […]
Commercial Service Studies Selected For Mars Science Droids
Nine companies have been selected to conduct early-stage studies of concepts for commercial services to support lower-cost, higher-frequency missions to the Red Planet.
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 […]
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.
An Ocean Engineer-Astronaut Returns Home
Keith’s note: I was just on a media telecon with Astronaut Loral O’Hara who just returned from 204 days on the International Space Station.
Salas y Gómez Ridge Seamount Away Team Expedition Discovers 50 New Life Forms
International team co-led by a BSC researcher discovers more than 50 new deep-sea species in one of the most unexplored areas of the planet.
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 […]
ESA PANGAEA Away Team Tricorder Practice
ESA PANGAEA 2022-2023 course trainees investigate the mineral content in a rock outcrop, using the spectrometer associated with the Electronic FieldBook.
ESA PANGAEA Away Team Training At Caldera Blanca Volcano
NASA astronaut Stephanie Wilson and ESA astronaut Alexander Guerst during their training along the rim of the Caldera Blanca volcano.
