Gravity Assist: Astronauts Go Back to Moon School, with Kelsey Young

19/12/2019 22 min
Gravity Assist: Astronauts Go Back to Moon School, with Kelsey Young

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Besides learning how to live in space, astronauts training for Artemis missions to the Moon will need to become experts in geology, so they know what to look for when they're scoping out rocks and other features. Kelsey Young of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center describes her experience of teaching astronauts through analog sites, places on Earth that resemble parts of the Moon.

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