00:00What do space missions and underwater missions have in common?
00:03Hi, I'm Dr. Michaela Musulova and I spent several days living and working underwater
00:08as the commander of the SeaStar mission. Space and underwater missions share the challenge
00:14of taking place in an inhospitable environment to humans where we have to bring literally
00:19everything with us in order to survive, including air. My crew and I performed a simulated space
00:25mission 22 feet underwater at the Jules Undersea Lab. There we worked as analog astronauts and we
00:32studied things like how our reaction time and cognition adapted to living under pressure,
00:38and we studied plant growth under those more stressful conditions. We also performed a number
00:44of other space-related scientific and educational projects such as neutral buoyancy training to
00:50simulate weightlessness. We successfully completed our mission and returned back to Earth as aquanauts.
