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Past NEEMO Missions

NEEMO Aquanaut outside Aquarius laboratory

Learn about the teams, activities and research from previous NEEMO missions.

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NEEMO News and Features

NEEMO 16 Commander Dottie (Dorothy) Metcalf-Lindenburger uses the ARGOS.

Analogs Blog: NEEMO 16 Training Week

NEEMO 16 Commander Dottie (Dorothy) Metcalf-Lindenburger talks about training week at JSC.

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Two NEEMO crew members perform simulated asteroid activities.

NEEMO 16 Mission Dates and Crew Announced

An international team of aquanauts will travel to the bottom of the Atlantic to simulate a visit to an asteroid in the 16th NEEMO expedition.

NEEMO 15 crew pose for one last picture - Takuya Onishi (JAXA), Shannon Walker (NASA), David Saint-Jacques (CSA), Steve Squyers (Cornell), Nate Bender (NURC), and James Talecek (NURC).

NEEMO 15 Wrap-up Report

Despite unfavorable weather delaying mission start and bringing NEEMO 15 to an early end, the crews accomplished all possible objectives in six ...

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This visible image of Hurricane Rina was taken by the MODIS instrument on NASA's Terra satellite on Oct. 24, 2011 at 12:15 p.m. EDT (16:15 UTC) when it was off the coast of Mexico. Photo Credit: NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Team

15th NEEMO Mission Ends Early Due To Hurricane Rina

Due to the predicted path of Hurricane Rina, the 15th NEEMO mission ended earlier than planned and the six aquanauts returned to the surface.

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NEEMO 15 Highlights

Analogs Blog: Testing Translation Methods Through Underwater "Spacewalks" →

10.21.11 - Aquanaut Takuya Onishi (JAXA) describes the objectives and process of performing two underwater "spacewalks" on Day 2 of the mission.
Analogs Blog: Splashdown →

10.20.11 - After delays due to stormy weather, the NEEMO 15 crew eagerly starts Mission Day One with splashdown on Oct. 20.

What is NEEMO?

NEEMO -- the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations project -- sends groups of NASA employees and contractors to live in the Aquarius undersea research station for up to three weeks at a time.

For NASA, Aquarius provides a convincing analog to space exploration, and NEEMO crewmembers experience some of the same tasks and challenges underwater as they would in space.

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