NASA Offers Glimpse of ASCAN Training
Earlier today The Researcher News (NASA Langely's newspaper) published a story featuring a tour the 2009 ASCAN Class took of facilities at the Langley Research Center. The class learned about Langley's work in aeronautics, atmospheric science, and flight test hardware at the National Transonic Facility and the NASA Engineering and Safety Center . They also visited the Rendezvous Docking Simulator , which is the only surviving docking training simulator from the Gemini and Apollo eras. The announcement included a video (2 min 25 sec) from the tour and interviews with ASCANs Jack Fischer (who has previously been a guest author on this blog here and here ) and Reid Wiseman . Near the end of the video, Wiseman sums up the ASCAN life: It's awesome so far. Absolutely fantastic. Way better than I had imagined. - Reid Wiseman