When we send humans to search for life on other planets, we’ll need to know what we brought with us versus what may already be there.
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Offworld Away Team Practice For Astronauts
Editor’s note: the procedures, new advanced spacesuits, analytical instruments, imaging and communications gear, and other tools associated with Artemis activities on the lunar surface will directly impact the capabilities that […]
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NASA Offworld Away Team Training In Arizona
To prepare for exploring the Moon during NASA’s Artemis campaign, the agency is conducting a week-long field test in the lunar-like landscape of San Francisco Volcanic Field near Flagstaff, Arizona […]
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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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ESA-JAXA Away Team Practices Away Mission Photography
ESA and JAXA astronauts recently conducted familiarization tryouts for the NASA Artemis HULC camera during a session of the ESA PANGAEA planetary geological field training in Lanzarote, Spain.
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Tricorder Tech: Kate Rubins Practices Away Team Skills With ESA’s Electronic FieldBook Microscope
A close-up view of NASA astronaut Kate Rubins as she analyzes images from the microscope associated with the ESA Electronic FieldBook (EFB) to better recognize minerals contained in rocks outcropping […]
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Away Team Tech: The BASALT Research Program
The articles associated with this Special Collection focus on the NASA BASALT (Biologic Analog Science Associated with Lava Terrains) Research Program, which aims at answering the question, “How do we […]