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Eagle County, over the last few years, has seen regular rotations of NASA astronauts come through what the U.S. Department of Defense calls “America’s highest level of training” at the U.S. Army’s High-Altitude Aviation Training Site in Gypsum.
But that training program could soon ramp up even more as NASA aims to take its preparations to the next level in readying the human landing system component of the upcoming Artemis moon mission.
Doug Wheelock is in charge of building the training program. Wheelock was an experimental test pilot in the U.S. Army before he was selected to be a NASA astronaut in 1998. He flew in the space shuttle Discovery in 2007 and was later selected to be the commander of the International Space Station, spending six months aboard the ISS. Wheelock completed six spacewalks before being selected to chair the Artemis mission’s joint test panel for the human landing system.
Eagle County, over the last few years, has seen regular rotations of NASA astronauts come through what the U.S. Department of Defense calls “America’s highest level of training” at the U.S. Army’s High-Altitude Aviation Training Site in Gypsum.
But that training program could soon ramp up even more as NASA aims to take its preparations to the next level in readying the human landing system component of the upcoming Artemis moon mission.
