All of the miners got out safely! Whoohoo!
I love this photo:
Many of the news articles mentioned that the miners were on a diet designed by NASA, but it looks like NASA offered a lot more help than that! Here are some little blurbs from NASA's website, to offer a bit more detail about the assistance they provided, including two doctors, a psychologist, and an engineer who helped the Chilean engeneers with their rescue cage design.
NASA - NASA Provides Assistance to Trapped Chilean Miners
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The NASA team includes two medical doctors, a psychologist and an engineer. Dr. Michael Duncan, deputy chief medical officer in NASA's Space Life Sciences Directorate at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, led the team. The other team members are physician J.D. Polk, psychologist Al Holland and engineer Clint Cragg.
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NASA - NASA Engineer Helps Chilean Miners
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"I went down to Chile with two doctors and a psychologist from Johnson Space Center in late August about three weeks after the cave-in," said Cragg. "Initially what the Chileans were asking for was medical and psychological assistance because of NASA's experience in harsh environments." But the engineer went along to see how else NASA might be able to help.
During his three days in South America, Cragg met up with a number of engineers in the Chilean Navy and others who were studying how to design a rescue capsule. "The team had a number of recommendations," said Cragg. "One of my recommendations was that NASA could help flushing out some of the requirements for the rescue capsule."
The Chileans took the NASA engineer up on his offer by email after he turned to the United States.
"I put together a team of engineers from almost every center around the agency," said Cragg. "Over the course of three days we hammered out a 12 to 13 page list of requirements for the capsule and sent that to the Chilean Minister of Health."
"After we had sent the requirements, I got some communication from one of the Chilean Navy commanders intimately involved in the design process of the capsule," said Cragg. "He told me that they had incorporated most of the suggestions we had provided to them."
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http://www.nasa.gov/news/speeches/ad...an_Miners.html
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For decades, the people of this agency have learned to live, work, and survive in the hostile environment of space. Our expertise in maintaining physiological and psychological health, and our technical and engineering experience in spacecraft design all proved to be valuable in a situation that is far from our traditional scope of work.
“I am proud of the people of this agency who were able to bring the experience of spaceflight down to Earth when it was needed most. As the drama of this rescue continues to unfold before us, we pray for the safe return of each and every miner.”
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Oh, and Shani, it's good to see you here. It saddens me to think that you've been chased away.
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Originally Posted by ShaniFaye
... Until yesterday afternoon there was no mention of these men on this forum and I was honestly flabbergasted.
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In the future, go ahead and start a thread about a current event that you'd like to see discussed.