According to The Space Agency, NASA recently released a picture featuring NASA divers simulating a pretend moonwalk on the lunar south pole. Moonwalks require extensive training where the lunar surface’s rough conditions are recreated.
To do this, NASA has often used a large swimming pool called the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory that offers a reduced gravity environment as close as possible to the moons.
NASA divers did their training in the dark resulting in a scary situation.
“Kill the lights… we’re stimulating a moonwalk! NASA wrote in its tweet posted by the agency’s Johnson Space Center. “Divers at NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory turned off the lights to simulate what an Artemis astronaut might experience at the lunar south pole… long, dark shadows.”
This is in preparation for the agency’s Artemis program, NASA’s mission to return humans to the moon for the first time since 1972 when NASA’s Apollo ended.
The Artemis program is very different from the Apollo mission because its mission is to explore the moon’s south pole and not its equator, which was the focus of the Apollo mission.
The moon’s poles are known to be shrouded in constant darkness, which is why they are being trained with the lights off. The Artemis mission will require the Astronauts to manage working without any light. This amazing image by NASA shows just what the Astronauts will be experiencing while on the moon, minus the bubbles from being underwater.
What do you think about NASA’s new moon mission? Would you like to go?
