The Eagle County airport in Gypsum has been identified as an ideal schooling zone for NASA astronauts heading to the moon.
A photo provided by NASA shows the moon’s far side, photographed by the Orion spacecraft during NASA’s Artemis I mission on Nov. 21, 2022. The U.S. Army’s High-Altitude Aviation Training Site at the Eagle County airport in Gypsum has been identified as an ideal schooling zone for astronauts training to return to the moon due to the mountainous terrain surrounding the site.
But unlike the famous Apollo 11 mission of 1969, the Artemis program intends to send astronauts who are much more prepared for what they will encounter in their approach and landing. Thanks to the notes from that mission which were recorded by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, this time NASA has a better idea of how to train its astronauts for such a mission.
In setting up those training scenarios, the U.S. Army’s High-Altitude Aviation Training Site at the Eagle County airport in Gypsum has been identified as an ideal schooling zone due to the mountainous terrain surrounding the site.Lieutenant Colonel Nicholas S. Tucker said NASA reached out to HAATS about a year and a half ago, wondering if the Eagle County-area training would be worthwhile for the Artemis astronauts to visit.
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