NASA Will Test Asteroid Exploration Skills Underwater

NASA crews are starting work on underwater simulations of what it might take to explore an asteroid with astronauts. U.S. space agency engineers and “aquanauts” will dive to the seabed around the Aquarius Underwater Laboratory near Key Largo, Fla., to prepare for an asteroid-landing experiment there...

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