NASA's Underwater Training Facility

An anonymous reader writes "The NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations project (NEEMO) sends groups of NASA employees and contractors to live in the Aquarius underwater laboratory for up to three weeks to study human survival in preparation for future space exploration. NASA has used it since 2001 for a number of missions, usually lasting 10 to 14 days, with research conducted by astronauts and others NASA employees."

And now, for their next trick

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe NASA could come up with a good reason for manned space exploration? Machines are getting better, we aren't. We KNOW what to do for long duration missions, they're just too expensive for nothing. Wee, a rock! Wee, a picture of a rock! Big deal.

Send machines, not people.

Voyager and the Third Age of Discovery [www.cbc.ca]

I know you'll just automaticcaly mod this down and not even listen (and THINK) about what the man has to say. But on the off chance one or two people are still capable of critical reasoning when pictures of Space Nuttery are around, the link is there.