NASA
Monday, April 30th, 2012 by Shaun PatelI just wrapped up an awesome month at NASA/Johnson Space Center, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! We’ll see where I’m at in a few years but I would definitely enjoy being a full-time astronaut or flight surgeon at some point. I have way too many pictures to be able to post them all, but here’s a start:
Astronaut helmet fitting
Sunshield on
Neutral Buoyancy Lab (40 feet deep pool with full scale International Space Station submerged)
Preparing to enter the Neutral Buoyancy Lab
Watching Apollo 13 inside Mission Control
Inside the International Space Station Mock-Up
Running out of oxygen, oops
Lunar Rover
Spidernaut (real name, no joke)
Training on the COLBERT (Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill)
Training on the ARED (Advanced Resistive Exercise Device)
T-38s, which astronauts/flight surgeons get to co-pilot
Mars Rover Simulator
Vomit bags are still vomit bags, even at NASA.
