Is the new Vision for Human Spaceflight changing the nature of NEEMO?
How do the partnerships within the NEEMO project mimic the partnerships that we’re using to build the space station, that we expect to use to go beyond it? I’m really, really excited about NEEMO. To me, NEEMO is all about vision and partnerships—the vision of how we’re going to go forward and enable exploration, the partnerships that we need to make that happen. The administrator has said that he would welcome international collaboration in future exploration missions where the partners will be able to provide technology that’s value added for those missions. And, I think what we’ve demonstrated with NEEMO is the partnerships work. With NEEMO 9, we have partners from throughout North America, all working together, collaboratively, on a very complex science payload but also on new technologies as well. And, I think as we go forward in the exploration era, the vision of using NEEMO as an exploration-enabling research technology development platform is a very sound vision. The partnership
