Woman Diver Trains Spacewalkers Underwater

Joanna Shell is a Dive Operations Specialist in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. As a utility diver, she plays a critical role in training astronauts for spacewalks on a life-sized replica of the International Space Station submerged in a 6.2 million gallon pool.

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Science & Technology

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• NASA
• space
• astronauts
• women's
• History
• training
• diving
• diversity

[winterstellar]

I'd be jealous at the astronauts in a job like that, hehe: )

[Sharingonsandninja]

The underwater training actually seems really fun.

[muhideen]

Hmm, let's see, the people who dislike this video are probably *beep* sexist.

[demonstrius3]

the diver at 0:57 needs to kick his fins better, if he does he'll accomplish 2 things

1. achieve mental calmness

2. swim faster :)

[shea500]

i think she did some things underthere..

[Bluenoser613]

That looks like it would be such a great job!

[librano]

lol... i was like. 'why do they mention that trainer is a woman _driver_? What did she do?' hehe...

[Themelodysong88]

funny

[lestube001]

all American gal

[pilotwave]

wow, what a cool job!