CAVES 2016: The dark face
A look back at the CAVES 2016 expedition which saw six astronauts from China, Japan, USA, Spain and Russia spend six nights in caves of Sardinia, Italy, to explore the depths and train for life in outer space.
CAVES – Cooperative Adventure for Valuing and Exercising human behaviour and performance Skills – focuses on multicultural approaches to leadership, following orders, teamwork and decision-making. At the end of the course the astronauts will have a better understanding of how they function in a multicultural team and what they are skilled at, as well as areas for self-improvement.
This year’s astronauts were each assigned a role for the underground expedition: Japanese astronaut Aki Hoshide shared commander and campsite duties with NASA’s Ricky Arnold, exchanging command halfway through the mission. China’s Ye Guangfu was the team’s survey and data engineer, while Russian Sergei Korsakov took up photo and video engineering duties. ESA astronaut Pedro Duque was the expedition’s scientist for environmental science, geology and microbiology, while NASA’s Jessica Meir was the biologist.
Follow CAVES Twitter via @ESA_CAVES, and on the CAVES blog: http://blogs.esa.int/caves.
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Congrats Guys!!!! Plus seems to have been amazing!!!!
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TELL US WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNT!!!!
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Fantastic!!! Thank you ESA and the entire caves team for sharing your wonderful experience with us. You're smiling faces shows the joy and excitement of the adventure! Well done!
Amazing video, but the sound made my ears bleed…
I wonder why they don't put a voiceover on their videos… I would have loved to hear what they were collecting there, and how they do it, and why… all that. This way it's just a random sequence of beautiful pictures that I will have forgotten in a couple of hours…
Wow, you can feel the project is beating like a heart. We are coming to life as a Planetary species. love you. hugs. ciao ciao!
Looks awesome ! Thank you for sharing 🙂
WE need a photojournalist and an editor who has the experience with voice over vs music. I always look forward to ESA and their attempts to educate the public. From them, over the years, I've experienced space operations more so than from other areas. Thanks ESA