Two NASA astronauts went underwater last week to test out some spacewalking techniques that could be used to explore a captured asteroid a decade or so from now. Astronauts Stan Love and Steve Bowen — who have 62 hours of spacewalking experience between them — descended into NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory pool on Friday (May 9) wearing \"escape suits\" from the space shuttle that could be modified for possible use on extravehicular activities (EVAs). The 40-foot-deep (12 meters) pool includes a mockup of NASA's Orion deep-space capsule, which would bring astronauts to the target asteroid. \"We're working on the techniques and tools we might use someday to explore a small asteroid that was captured from an orbit around the sun and brought back by a robotic spacecraft to orbit around the moon,\" Love said in a statement.
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