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New Nasa Simulator prepares Astronauts fot their most difficult task of all
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, Dec 10 2008 06:51 PM
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Posted 10 December 2008 - 06:51 PM
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Posted 10 December 2008 - 08:26 PM
I know this was posted as a joke, but while we are on the subject of astronauts ...
I thought you all might be interested to know that I actually certified one of our NASA astronauts for SCUBA about 12 years ago. Sandra Magnus (who is currently in orbit on the International Space Station) was finishing up her PhD at Georgia Tech in 1996, when she and her husband decided to enroll in the non-credit Openwater certification course that I teach there. Sandy had been accepted into the astronaut program by that time, and (besides being a fun thing to do!) SCUBA certification was one of the requirements that they wanted her to fulfill before reporting to NASA for training as a Mission Control Specialist.
Sandy's first space mission was STS-112, which was the last one that flew before the Columbia disaster (kind of scary!).
-JimG
I thought you all might be interested to know that I actually certified one of our NASA astronauts for SCUBA about 12 years ago. Sandra Magnus (who is currently in orbit on the International Space Station) was finishing up her PhD at Georgia Tech in 1996, when she and her husband decided to enroll in the non-credit Openwater certification course that I teach there. Sandy had been accepted into the astronaut program by that time, and (besides being a fun thing to do!) SCUBA certification was one of the requirements that they wanted her to fulfill before reporting to NASA for training as a Mission Control Specialist.
Sandy's first space mission was STS-112, which was the last one that flew before the Columbia disaster (kind of scary!).
-JimG
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Posted 11 December 2008 - 01:06 PM
I know this was posted as a joke, but while we are on the subject of astronauts ...
I thought you all might be interested to know that I actually certified one of our NASA astronauts for SCUBA about 12 years ago. Sandra Magnus (who is currently in orbit on the International Space Station) was finishing up her PhD at Georgia Tech in 1996, when she and her husband decided to enroll in the non-credit Openwater certification course that I teach there. Sandy had been accepted into the astronaut program by that time, and (besides being a fun thing to do!) SCUBA certification was one of the requirements that they wanted her to fulfill before reporting to NASA for training as a Mission Control Specialist.
Sandy's first space mission was STS-112, which was the last one that flew before the Columbia disaster (kind of scary!).
-JimG
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