Camping on an Asteroid

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Digital environment used to mimic an asteroid mission (Credits: NASA).

Source: NASA

An astronaut and a geologist recently spent three days camping out as though they were on an asteroid. They were inside NASA’s Space Exploration Vehicle prototype, flying it virtually in a digital environment as it was parked at the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at Johnson Space Center.

Follow along on their mission in the video below:

 

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