Space Intelligence

4 of 4 - ‘Gone Fishing - Artemis Style’ – keeping a sense of humor and finding the joy that is in everything, is the way to make your way through stressing and challenging things. So what do you do when you make an emergency landing here on Earth, far from the recovery forces… and your spacecraft ends up in the upside-down? Go Fishing! Thanks to one of our @NASAArtemis team who brought the toy fishing poles, we were able to have a moment of fun for everyone that kept the stress levels low prior to focusing on the seriousness of the training we had to accomplish.

3 of 4 - With our egress path being out the docking hatch which is submerged underwater, we have to partially flood the capsule by opening and removing the docking hatch. As you can imagine, this is not a comfortable feeling letting water into the space which in real-life would be your only breathable air (in this case the trainer is not a sealed vessel). Then we have to take our survival kits, life raft and medical kits – make sure the equipment and crew are tethered together so we don’t get separated and then take a deep breath, drop out the bottom of our floating Orion, and swim up to our raft on the surface. Just another great day of training for @NASAArtemis III crew!

2 of 4 - In order to train for this deep contingency case where we are stuck upside-down and are not close to any of the recovery team that has the backup uprighting system, we train to get out underwater. The trainer (with us in it) is hoisted over the water and rolled to the upside-down position so we are hanging by our restraint straps. Then it is partially lowered into the water to the level we would expect it to be floating after a mission.

1 of 4 - What do you do when your @NASA_Orion spacecraft spashes down, turns upside down and cannot upright itself? @NASAJohnson Neutral Buoyancy Lab, we can train for that. First - @NASAArtemis III crew makes a plan, huddles up and then ingresses the Orion trainer capsule.