Clinical psychology is the art of figuring out what's wrong with anyone. Neem Karoli Baba was all about what could be right with people.He embodied ongoing presence, unconditional love, totally relaxed, happy, joyous, and he was contagious.
And now, we're doing these analog missions. NEEMO is the underwater lab that's off of Key Largo where astronauts go and . So this is like the-- we've moved to doing it on pads so that-- And we're looking now at crew self scheduling.
But they all kind of join up to one big loop of transfer of knowledge. So NEEMO is actually conducted-- these are some images from the NEEMO test site out in the Florida Keys. And this test or this analog makes use of the Aquarius base.
If you have to, in emergency mode, you can be in there for 72 hours. has been designed through NEEMO and Desert Rat's work to mimic a trip to an asteroid or to the moons of Mars.
And he left for India at the encouragement of one of his close friends, former Harvard Professor Richard Alpert, now known famously as Ram Das. And Krishna Das met his teacher Neem Karoli Baba there and stayed there. And in his own words, he says, in a manner of speaking, he never came back.
and swamis, and lamas. I was particularly interested in a yogi named Neem Karoli Baba. He was well-known in those days as Ram Dass's guru, the mysterious yogi on the blanket,
They serve different purposes. And some of them have really nifty acronyms such as NEEMO as Chris mentioned. But they all kind of join up to one big loop of transfer of knowledge.
So that's this kind of nice little family of NASA analogs that are still in operation and working together. So some of the concepts that are being tested at NEEMO, at Desert Rats previously, as well as in the lab, are, for example, this is an asteroid mission where you have an asteroid that's actually in anchored into the asteroid itself, working along a grid
even know if we had enough resources to get ever go to the summit we needed 3,000 ft of rope we needed ice screws petons and everything with some of this in neema's backpack when he went shooting off the side maybe we would never be able to get to the top for the lack of this equipment so we split our team up Bruce stayed kind of in the middle Don went all the way to the end
having them kind of examine it based on that. So they will go through, in these NEEMO and Desert Rats environments, and test these different scenarios. They have like seven, 10 different conditions that they'll look at at any one point in time.
And so we'll test different ConOps once again under these more real conditions. This is an image here of a lab-based test that post-NEEMO was used to actually examine some of these collection mechanisms as well as the idea of being tethered on an astronaut-- pardon me-- an asteroid.
Once again, sounds very common sense, but nobody had actually done that experiment in the past. And so all of this information has since been carried forward to all of the NEEMO tests and other simulations that have been done at JSC, and are now getting incorporated into the general kind of operational planning for deep space missions for humans.
If you have to, in emergency mode, you can be in there for 72 hours. But what has happened is this XGDS program has since been absorbed by NEEMO, by Desert Rats, and now is being used by something called the Mojave