Since astronauts must learn to adjust to dark, isolated and confined spaces, scant equipment, privacy and supplies--where better to practice for the deprivations of life in space than deep underground? Because navigating safely in a cave requires tethering, 3D orientation, with no-touch areas (statlactites, stalagmites) and treacherous no-go zones, it can provide many of the same technical challenges as a spacewalk.
- Andreas Mogensen
- Andreas Mogensen
- Andrew Feustel
- Cave diving
- Danish people
- David Saint-Jacques
- ESA
- European Space Agency
- European Space Agency
- Flash
- flash
- Francesco
- International Space Station
- Japan
- Mike Fincke
- NASA
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Nikolai Tikhonov
- Rebecca Horne
- Russia
- Sardinia
- Sardinia
- scant equipment
- Science and Technology
- Shutter
- Softbank
- Soichi Noguchi
- space
- Spaceflight
- Sprint
- Yahoo! Japan
