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thanks Kyle we're back as he said in the

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neutral buoyancy laboratory in this time

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we've got Tim Cottard here with us he's

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the Lee white lean forward the neutral

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buoyancy laboratory or NBL as we call it

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here and NASA speak and he's gonna tell

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us a little bit at first of all how

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about tell us what the MBO is giant

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swimming pool obviously I feel okay the

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NBL is the neutral buoyancy laboratory

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what we do here is to Train astronauts

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to do spacewalks so anytime they have a

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plan to our contingency EV a extra extra

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vehicular activity they'll come here

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first they'll do 1g training tabletop

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training to learn the tools the pieces

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in the parts and then we'll finally get

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them in the water and then a first in

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scuba they'll learn the work sites learn

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the different facets of the specific

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tasks are going to do and then they'll

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finally get in the suits himself so

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soups themselves or downgraded suits

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they used to fly most of them and now

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they're rated for the NBL and so the

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astronauts are on the space station

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right now they've been in the infinity

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meal and trained for spacewalks and

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things like that that's correct and so

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now though we're also using it to get

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ready for the Orion program which is

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again our new spaceship that rebuilding

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take humans into space getting ready for

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its flight test scheduled for September

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2014 and doing rescue and recovery

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operations today so what what all is

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involved the map so what the NBL part in

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rescue and recovery is the port capsule

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you have here post orbit type stuff once

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they splash down that's where we come

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into play once they splashdown Navy

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divers are going to be have the primary

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means of recovery we're going to use a

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surface ship an amphibious ship to motor

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up to it we're going to deploy small

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boats like you can see right here the

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rubber or rating crc combat rubber

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rating crap or zodiac as it's commonly

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called you're gonna have a couple Navy

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diver teams and these things and you

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have larger boat which call ribs rigid

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inflatable hull inflatable pole rigid

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haunts are rigid hull inflatable boats

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okay so you're having different small

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boats in the water they're going to

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motor up to the capsule and the

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parachutes and the forebay cover and the

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different items would have fallen hook

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buoy lines on to them stand off once the

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hydrazine and the ammonia and all the

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stuff is vented out and so safe to

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approach they'll go up attach towing

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lines on it

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towing depressor sea anchors and

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handling whines okay and so for the

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first despite test it's not going to

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have any astronauts in it but in the

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future certainly it will and they'll be

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coming back from long stays in space so

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they're probably a lot of things to take

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into account you have to be of course

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careful and safe when you've got people

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in it right so essentially that that's

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why we're here today this is the you

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know we use the analogy of crawl walk

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run this is the craw phase of training

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evolution so we're bringing active duty

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Navy divers out from the east coast

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which is where we're going to train

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first and then we'll go out to San Diego

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and then finally off the coast of Baja

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California wow so this is the very slow

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procedural development phase of it where

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knew everything safely a dirt dive it

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you know dive it topside before you

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really get in the water and do it how

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helpful do you think it is to have this

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facility to be able to do do these kind

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of practice runs in you know once again

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you know we're unique facility in the

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world you can't really get provide what

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we can provide here the Navy has several

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facilities but they can't provide the

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water the machine shop next door the we

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can tap into NASA technical expertise

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right down the street as well as you

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know our common video system the HD

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cameras and things like that well in

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speaking of the Navy tell us a little

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bit about that relationship how does

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that work so we've been doing this for a

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couple years now and up into this point

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active duty Navy has it participated too

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much so we've had Navy reservist local

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Navy reservist divers seals and EOD

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folks it will bring into the NBL they've

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been evaluating the hardware this is the

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first time we've actually got active

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duty to bring into an activity master

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diver as well as diving warrant officer

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and they're the hands-on so these aren't

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the two folks that are going to actually

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go recover the astronauts or the capsule

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but these are the ones who are in charge

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of the training plan and a charge the

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sailors who are actually go out to it

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okay so we're getting getting closer and

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closer to the point of actually training

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people to go do it we're getting there

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hopefully sometime coming up in this

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summer we'll have

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a troop of mud sea divers mobile diving

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salvage unit divers coming out here and

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doing a training class great maybe we'll

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come back for that oh so um so we've got

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the port mock-ups behind us right that's

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what we use here for the testing in the

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NBA oh that's great and what what could

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be going on here today yesterday we had

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the for debate cover which you can't see

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unfortunates behind the port that's just

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a section of it that will come off

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during when it went during descent we

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did recovery operations on that and make

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sure that we can motor up to it hook up

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to it flip it over put lift bags on and

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put a towing line on and actually tow it

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with these boats today what we're doing

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is we're doing attachment systems on on

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the capsule itself so there's three

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attacks points1 primary to secondary the

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primary is a towing point we're trying

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to verify that the systems that we have

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that can attach to it along what we were

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calling the octopus with several

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different attach points is viable so the

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active duty guys are coming in here

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they're making sure that a spur you know

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Navy standards this is going to work

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it's nice and safe and now going well so

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far it's all going great so far all

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right well thanks so much for talking

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with us again this is tim daughter the

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NBL flight leave here at the neutral

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buoyancy laboratory that's the M deal