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  • Visible Together: An AANHPI Conversation with NASA

    Visible Together: An AANHPI Conversation with NASA

    NASA’s Jonny Kim and Anita Dey sit down with historian Brian Odom to discuss how NASA is making the Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander community visible to the world, Kim’s experience with the space program growing up, and the impact of cultural stereotypes.

    In addition to being an astronaut, Jonny Kim is also a Harvard-trained physician and U.S. Navy SEAL. Anita Dey serves as a strategic partnerships manager in NASA’s Science Mission Directorate.

    Learn more about our diverse workforce: http://nasa.gov/faces-of-nasa

    #AANHPI #nasa

    Link to download this video: https://images.nasa.gov/details/Visible%20Together-An%20AANHPI%20Conversation%20with%20NASA

  • CAVES 2016: The visible face

    CAVES 2016: The visible face

    Scenes from training of six astronauts who will spend six nights underground in a cave in Sardinia, Italy. After a week of training, the astronauts descend into the caves to set up basecamp 800 m underground.

    One of the last unexplored environments on our planet, caves offer parallels to exploring space. ESA’s underground training course “Cooperative Adventure for Valuing and Exercising human behaviour and performance Skills” – CAVES – prepares astronauts over two weeks to work safely and effectively in multicultural teams.

    This year’s participants are an even more international team than ever, including ESA’s Pedro Duque, NASA’s Jessica Meir and Richard Arnold, Japan’s astronaut Aki Hoshide, China’s Ye Guangfu and Russia’s Sergei Korsakov.

    The similarities between caving and spaceflight are highlighted throughout the course. Speleologists and astronauts adopt the ‘buddy system’, and both astronaut trainers and CAVES instructors repeat the same mantras of “slow is fast,” “check your gear, and then trust it,” and “always be aware of where you are and where your buddy is”.

    Follow the underground adventure on Twitter with @ESA_Caves, and on the CAVES blog: http://blogs.esa.int/caves/.