{"id":463438,"date":"2018-04-16T06:32:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T10:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=4cba212a7af3937451f69db77d35bbb2"},"modified":"2018-04-16T06:32:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T10:32:00","slug":"moondive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=463438","title":{"rendered":"Moondive"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nIt\u2019s one of the deepest \u2018swimming pools\u2019 in Europe, but for three years has been helping preparations for a human return to the Moon. ESA\u2019s Neutral Buoyancy Facility at the European Astronaut Centre has been the site of the \u2018Moondive\u2019 study, using specially weighted spacesuits to simulate lunar gravity, which is just one sixth that of Earth.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe three-year study took place in the Centre\u2019s 10-m deep Neutral Buoyancy Facility (NBF) near Cologne in Germany. This is one of four such immersion tanks worldwide \u2013 the others are in the United States, China and Russia \u2013 and is used to train astronauts for \u2018extra vehicular activity\u2019 (EVA), also known as spacewalks.\n<\/p>\n

\nWith International Space Station operations moving towards an international lunar return in the late 2020s, ESA\u2019s NBF has been used to investigate moonwalk procedures for the lunar surface.\n<\/p>\n

\nMoondive was run by a consortium led by the French company, COMEX, which specialises in human and robotic exploration of extreme environments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\nIt’s one of the deepest ‘swimming pools’ in Europe, but for three years has been helping preparations for a human return to the Moon. ESA’s Neutral Buoyancy Facility at the European Astronaut Centre has been the site of the ‘Moondive’ study, using specially weighted spacesuits to simulate lunar gravity, which is just one sixth that of Earth.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe three-year study took place in the Centre’s 10-m deep Neutral Buoyancy Facility (NBF) near Cologne in Germany. This is one of four such immersion tanks worldwide – the others are in the United States, China and Russia – and is used to train astronauts for ‘extra vehicular activity’ (EVA), also known as spacewalks.\n<\/p>\n

\nWith International Space Station operations moving towards an international lunar return in the late 2020s, ESA’s NBF has been used to investigate moonwalk procedures for the lunar surface.\n<\/p>\n

\nMoondive was run by a consortium led by the French company, COMEX, which specialises in human and robotic exploration of extreme environments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=463438"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464615,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463438\/revisions\/464615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=463438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=463438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=463438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}