Simulated mission on Mars, Neapolitan engineer in the crew. For 45 days in HERA while “traveling” towards the Martian moon
There is also an Italian, precisely a Neapolitan, the 33-year-old engineer Roberto Carlino, among the members of the crew that is preparing to participate in the next NASA simulated mission to Mars.
This was announced on NASA's website.
The crew members, the website says, will enter the Human Exploration Research Analog (HERA) located at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Once inside HERA, they will live and work as astronauts for 45 days (May 27 to July 11) as they "travel" to the Martian moon Phobos.
Roberto Carlino, who will turn 28 on May 33, is an aerospace engineer (graduated from Naples) who works in robotics at NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, California, where he arrived seven years ago.
He is involved in several NASA projects (Astrobee and the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System Cubesat) and also worked as a software engineer for the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, a mission involving the Kepler space telescope, which searches for habitable planets near stars near our solar system.
Joining him on the crew are Alejandro R. Diaz, a Peruvian-American aerospace engineer from Chino Hills, California; Brad Hensley, from Longmont, Colorado, also an engineer working in the aerospace industry; and Jennifer Milczarski, originally from Detroit, Michigan, where she works as a nurse anesthetist for two major companies.
Russ Klvacek of Salt Lake City, Utah, a scientist at Science Applications International Corp.'s Artificial Intelligence Innovation Factory, was chosen as a possible replacement.
Article published on May 13, 2022 - 11:26 pm
