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Artemis Crew Face Mobility and Dust Challenges That Deep-Sea Tech Could Solve

An opinion piece by Dennis Meredith argues that NASA’s Artemis program should look to deep-sea exploration for solutions to current spacesuit limitations. The author notes that current bulky suits restrict astronaut mobility, limit task time, and allow hazardous lunar dust to enter capsules. He suggests that technologies developed for high-pressure, confined deep-sea environments could offer better design principles for future lunar operations.

via SpaceNews|

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Titan submersible debris discovered near Titanic wreckage, Coast Guard confirms.

The US Coast Guard will continue searching the sea floor near the Titanic shipwreck for more clues about what happened to the Titan submersible, which vanished while taking five people down to the wreck of the Titanic. The Coast Guard says the Titan submersible likely imploded in the North Atlantic waters and there were no survivors among the five people aboard. The search for the Titan submersible has drawn attention to other deep-sea rescues, only some of which ended in lives being saved. The unsuccessful efforts have “really opened up people’s eyes that we need a much more robust capability over larger areas of the ocean to be able to detect and sense where things are,” said Nick Rotker, who leads underwater research for non-profit research and development company MITRE.

via ABC News|

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