posted 10-26-2011 08:28 AM               

Editor's note: In an effort to keep the topics:

• NASA NEEMO XV mission: Life on an asteroid
  
• NASA NEEMO XVI: Asteroid activities under the sea
  
• NASA NEEMO XVIII and XIX underwater missions

...focused on status updates, readers' feedback and opinions are directed to this thread.

Please use this topic to discuss the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations Project (NEEMO) and its use as a development platform for future exploration missions.

posted 10-26-2011 08:32 AM            

I understand that Squyres was once an astronaut applicant. I am intrigued that he is now participating in an asteroid human exploration mission analogue with shuttle astronauts and other scientists.