NASA Aquanaut Crew:

• Michael Fincke, Commander
• Daniel M. Tani
• Sunita Williams – The first woman on Aquarius; Williams formerly held the records for total spacewalks by a woman (seven) and most spacewalk time for a woman (50 hours, 40 minutes)
• Marc Reagan

NURC Support Crew:

• Thor Dunmire
• Ryan Snow

Image:  Sunita Williams
Credit: NASA

NASA Aquanaut Crew

• Jeffrey Williams, Commander
• Gregory Chamitoff
• John D. Olivas
• Jonathan Dory

NURC Support Crew:

• Byron Croker
• Michael Smith

One of the experiments conducted during NEEMO 3 was the construction of an underwater structure. The experiment would provide an analog of space station assembly during extravehicular activities, or EVAs.

Image:  Underwater construction
Credit: NASA

NASA Aquanaut Crew

• Scott Kelly, Commander
• Paul Hill
• Rex Walheim
• Jessica Meir

NURC Support Crew:

• James Talacek
• Ryan Snow

Hurricane Isadore and Tropical Storm Lili threatened the NEEMO 4 expedition, but the crew was ultimately able to remain for the full five days. 

Image:  Tropical Storm Lili

 NASA Aquanaut Crew:

• Peggy Whitson, Commander
• Clayton Anderson
• Garrett Reisman
• Emma Hwang

NURC Support Crew:

• James Talacek
• Ryan Snow

Whitson was the first Space Station Expedition crewmember to live aboard Aquarius, so she was able to offer a unique perspective. She wrote in her journal: “I have spent a lot of time in the last [six] months wishing that I were back living on the International Space Station … This longing to be in space is probably why this opportunity to have a mission under the sea intrigued me.”

Image:  NEEMO 5’s crew
Credit: NASA

NASA Aquanaut Crew

• John Herrington, Commander – Commander Herrington was born into the Native American Chickasaw Nation, and carried its flag on his thirteen-day trip to space in 2002.
• Nicholas Patrick
• Douglas H. Wheelock
• Tara Ruttley

NURC Support Crew:

• Craig B. Cooper
• Joseph March

• Marc Reagan, Mission Director

Image:  Emblem of the Native American Chickasaw Nation

NASA Aquanaut Crew:

• Robert Thirsk, Commander
• Catherine Coleman
• Michael R. Barratt
• Craig McKinley

NURC Support Crew:

• James Talacek
• Billy Cooksey

• Bill Todd, Mission Director

The primary research focus of this mission was to evaluate telementoring and telerobotic surgery technologies as potential means to deliver medical care to astronauts during spaceflight. 

Image:  Aquanaut Dr. Craig McKinley practices a suturing technique in Aquarius
Credit NASA

NASA Aquanaut Crew

• Michael L. Gernhardt, Commander – His professional honors include 4 NASA Space Flight Medals; 2 Exceptional Service Medals; 1 Exceptional Achievement Medal and 1 Distinguished Service Medal.
• John D. Olivas
• Scott Kelly
• Monika Schultz

NURC Support Crew:

• Craig B. Cooper
• Joseph March

• Bill Todd, Mission Director

Image:  Michael Gernhardt, attached to the Shuttle Endeavour’s robot arm during a spacewalk
Credit: NASA

NASA Aquanaut Crew:

• Dafydd Williams, Commander
• Nicole P. Stott
• Ronald J. Garan, Jr.
• Timothy J. Broderick, M.D.

NURC Support Crew:

• James F. Buckley
• Ross Hein

• Marc Reagan, Mission Director

During the mission, remote health care procedures were tested on a patient simulator. New long-distance medical care procedures, such as telemonitoring and telerobotic surgery, may help maintain the health of spacefarers. The techniques simulated in Aquarius can be used in remote settings on Earth, and may one day be used to respond to emergencies on the International Space Station, the moon or Mars

Image:  The NEEMO 9 crew prepares for a night dive
Credit: NASA

NASA Aquanaut Crew

• Koichi Wakata, Commander – a veteran of four NASA Space Shuttle missions, a Russian Soyuz mission, and a long-duration stay on the International Space Station; during a nearly two-decade career in spaceflight, he has logged more than eleven months in space; the first Japanese commander of the International Space Station. 
• Andrew Feustel
• Karen L. Nyberg
• Karen Kohanowich

NURC Support Crew:

• Mark Hulsbeck
• Dominic Landucci

• Marc Reagan, Mission Director

Image:  Koichi Wakata
Credit: NASA

NASA Aquanaut Crew:  

• Sandra Magnus, Commander – “It was really interesting to see how just the weight distribution for this simulated space suit could dramatically change how difficult or easy it was to do different activities.”
• Timothy Kopra
• Robert L. Behnken
• Timothy Creamer

NURC Support Crew:

• Larry Ward
• Roger Garcia

• Marc Reagan, Mission Director

Image:  NEEMO crewmember during a ’waterwalk’
Credit: NASA

NASA Aquanaut Crew:

• Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, Commander
• José M. Hernández
• Josef Schmid, M.D.
• Timothy J. Broderick, M.D.

NURC Support Crew:

• Dominic Landucci
• James Talacek

• Marc Reagan, Mission Director

“A highlight of our mission today was a “ship to ship” call from the Aquarius Habitat up to the International Space Station! The ISS had just passed over the Florida Keys, and with the great help of our Public Affairs Office and Mission Control back at the Johnson Space Center, we were able to talk directly with the ISS crew. Suni Williams, a former Aquarius crew member herself, has been living on the ISS for the past six months. We had a great conversation with her, sharing her memories of living here and on the similarities on living there on the ISS.”

Image:  NOAA Seafloor Marker Commemorates 200 Years Of ‘Inner Space’ Exploration
Credit: NASA

NASA Aquanaut Crew:

• Nicholas Patrick, Commander – “Before coming down here, most of us didn’t know the difference between coral and a sponge. I used to think of fish as wheat, something you harvest. I can’t think the word ‘supply’ and ‘fish’ in the same sentence now.” 
• Richard R. Arnold
• Satoshi Furukawa
• Christopher E. Gerty

NURC Support Crew:

• James F. Buckley
• Dewey Smith

• Marc Reagan, Mission Director

Image:  Commander Patrick stands on his hands to simulate the one-sixth gravity on the lunar surface
Credit: NASA

NASA Aquanaut Crew:

• Chris Hadfield, Commander – The first Canadian to walk in space; author of the bestseller, “An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth;” recorded a version of “Space Oddity” on the ISS. 
• Thomas H. Marshburn
• Andrew Abercromby
• Steve Chappell

Aquarius Reef Base Support Crew:

• James Talacek
• Nate Bender
• Eli Quinn
• Bill Todd, Mission Director

Image:  Playing “Space Oddity” on the ISS
Credit: Rare Earth

NASA Aquanaut Crew:

• Shannon Walker, Commander
• Takuya Onishi
• David Saint-Jacques
• Steve Squyres – Squyres has written a book called Roving Mars: Spirit, Opportunity, and the Exploration of the Red Planet (published August 2005), and appeared on the June 7, 2006 episode of The Colbert Report to discuss it, Mars, and MER. The Disney IMAX documentary film Roving Mars was made from the book.

Aquarius Reef Base Support Crew:

• James Talacek
• Nate Bender

DeepWorker 2000 Submersible Crew:

• Stanley G. Love
• Richard R. Arnold
• Michael L. Gernhardt

Image:  NEEMO 15 crew members from right to left:
Shannon Walker, Steve Squyres, David Saint-Jacques, Takuya Onishi
Credit: NASA 

NASA Aquanaut Crew:

• Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger, Commander –  Metcalf-Lindenburger taught Earth Science and Astronomy at Hudson’s Bay High School in Vancouver, Washington for five years, and coached high school cross-country running for two years. 
• Kimiya Yui
• Timothy Peake
• Steve Squyres

Aquarius Reef Base Support Crew:

• Steve Chappell
• James Talacek
• Justin Brown

DeepWorker 2000 Submersible Crew:

• Stanley G. Love
• Steve Giddings
• Serena M. Auñón
• Bill Todd
• Michael L. Gernhardt
• Andrew Abercromby

Image:  Tim Peake, Steven Squyres, James Talacek (inside),
Justin Brown (in the black suit), Kimiya Yui, and Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger
Credit: NASA

Aquanaut Crew: 

• Joseph M. Acaba, Commander – Acaba spent two years in the United States Peace Corps and trained over 300 teachers in the Dominican Republic in modern teaching methodologies.
• Kate Rubins
• Andreas Mogensen
• Soichi Noguchi
• Thomas Pesquet

Aquarius Reef Base Support Crew: 

• Mark Hulsbeck
• Otto Rutten

Image:  On board the ISS
Credit: NASA

NASA Aquanaut Crew:

• Akihiko Hoshide, Commander – While on the ISS in 2012, Hoshide successfully recorded the first voice acting performance in space for a cameo appearance in the 31^st episode of the anime television series, Space Brothers, which aired on November 4, 2012.
• Jeanette J. Epps
• Mark T. Vande Hei
• Thomas Pesquet

Professional Habitat Technician, Aquarius Reef Base Support Crew

• Hank Stark (FIU)

Image:  Mission Specialist Akihiko Hoshide works
in the newly installed Kibo Japanese Pressurized Module
Photo credit: NASA/JSC

NASA Aquanaut Crew:

• Randolph Bresnik, Commander
• Andreas Mogensen, Flight Engineer 1
• Jeremy Hansen, Flight Engineer 2
• Hervé Stevenin, Flight Engineer 3 – Stevenin has received extensive astronaut training and is the only “non-astronaut” European citizen with spacewalk training experience inside both NASA’s Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) and Russian Orlan space suit. 

Aquarius Reef Base Support Crew:

• Mark Hulsbeck
• Ryan LaPete
• Eli Quinn c.e.o

Image:  The NEEMO 19 crew: Left to right:
Hansen, Stevenin, Mogensen, Bresnik; inside habitat: Hulsbeck, LaPete
Credit: NASA

NASA NEEMO 20 Aquanaut Crew

• Luca Parmitano, ESA, Commander
• David Coan, NASA EVA Management Office Engineer
• Norishige Kanai, JAXA

Professional Habitat Technicians, Aquarius Reef Base Support Crew

• Mark Hulsbeck (FIU)
• Sean Moore (FIU)

The mission objective was to simulate the time-delays associated with sending and receiving commands between controllers on Earth and astronauts on Mars. Additional EVAs will simulate working on the surface of an asteroid, and the use of DeepWorker submersible as an underwater standin for the Multi-Mission Space Exploration Vehicle.-Serena M. Auñón, NASA

Image:  Luca Parmitano, Serena Aunon, David Coan, Norishige Kanai
Inside the Aquarius station: Mark Hulsbeck & Sean Moore
Credit: NASA

NASA Aquanaut Crew:

• Reid Wiseman, NASA, Commander 1.
• Megan McArthur, NASA, Commander 2
• Marc O’Griofa – Twitter handle:  DiveDoc
• Matthias Maurer, ESA
• Noel Du Toit
• Dawn Kernagis

Professional Habitat Technicians, Aquarius Reef Base Support Crew

• Hank Stark (FIU)
• Sean Moore (FIU)

The NEEMO 21 mission was scheduled to begin July 18, 2016 and conclude August 3, 2016; however, the mission start was shifted to July 21, 2016 as a result of unfavorable weather conditions

Image:  “Executing missions from #innerspace to #outerspace”
Credit: NASA

NASA Aquanaut Crew:  

• Kjell Lindgren, NASA, Commander
• Pedro Duque, ESA
• Trevor Graff, NASA/Jacobs
• Dominic D’Agostino, USF

Professional Habitat Technicians, Aquarius Reef Base Support Crew

• Mark Hulsbeck (FIU)
• Sean Moore (FIU)

NEEMO 22 focused on both exploration spacewalks and objectives related to the International Space Station and deep space missions. 

Image:  NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren pulling Pedro Duque
on a stretcher in a simulated lunar rescue
Credit: NASA