阿米吉多頓 - 美國宇航局訓練宇航員作小行星任務
2012-05-15
NASA宇航員開始為小行星任務訓練
NASA Astronauts Begin Training For Asteroid Mission
2035年發生的任務
Mission to happen in 2035
By Richard Stalker ·
May 14, 2012
Translation by Autumnson Blog
NASA astronauts are getting ready to start to prepare for what could be one of the most challenging mission to date, a trip to an asteroid. Next month they will begin a training programme that will teach them how to operate vehicles, conduct spacewalks and gather samples on the surface of an asteroid. The work will be mainly scientific, but the data gleaned from the asteroid could one day be useful if there is ever one with a destiny for the surface of Earth. Major Tim Peake, a former British Army helicopter test pilot who is now the first official British astronaut with the European Space Agency, had this to say: “With enough warning we would probably send a robotic mission to deflect an asteroid, but if something is spotted late and is big enough we might come into Armageddon type scenarios where we may have to look at manned missions to deflect it.”
NASA宇航員在準備，開始預備可能是迄今為止最具挑戰性的任務- 小行星之旅。下個月他們將開始一項訓練計劃，會教他們如何操作車輛、進行太空漫步、並收集小行星表面的樣本。工作將主要是科學性的，但從小行星收集的數據可能有一天是有用的，如果曾有一樣是為地球表面的命運。一位前英國陸軍直升機試飛員現在是歐洲航天局的第一官方英國宇航員蒂姆·皮克少校，這樣說過：“有足夠的警告，我們可能會發送一隊機械人任務隊來使小行星轉向，但如果事情發現得晚和足夠大的話，我們可能會進入世界末日類型的景況，我們可能要看看載人航天任務隊來使之轉向。“
The training will start next month when Major Peake will join 5 other people in an underwater training station off the coast of Florida. The capsule they will share is 43 feet long by 20 feet wide tube, is 65 feet under water, and will be their home for 12 days. The facility is called the Nasa Extreme Environment Mission Operation or NEEMO. “NEEMO is as close to the real thing as we can manage on Earth. We are in a confined space and living quarters are very tight,” said Peake, “We will need at least 12 hours of decompression before we can resurface safely so we are sort of trapped down there, and that makes it much more realistic.”
The mission is hoping to use the Orion spacecraft that sits atop the Space Launch System. Once there, the astronauts would live in a Deep Space Habitat and traverse the landscape using a Space Exploration Vehicle (SEV).
Picture courtesy the ESA.
http://www.webpronews.com/nasa-astronauts-begin-training-for-asteroid-mission-2012-05
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