How will the mining operations on asteroids? Video training "kosmoshahterov" Bashny.Net

Despite the fact that mining asteroids yet still a good topic for science fiction (in the sense that this is the future), NASA is testing for the development of asteroids. By the way, capture astroid, its delivery to orbit the moon with further study - it is no longer a distant future, all included in the plan on preparing NASA Mars mission .

However, not on asteroids and their models, underwater. Why is underwater? Well, at least some simulated conditions on asteroids, with practically zero gravity and vacuum.

Trainings are held in the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center.

Underwater astronauts should carry output from the capsule Orion (it will be used in a similar trip to asteroids), a prototype "astroidnyh 'spacesuits. After the release of "Space" sphere of space mining workers try their hand in the production of samples of minerals.

Here's how it looks:





Via NASA

Source: habrahabr.ru/post/222617/