T+199: A Visit to the NASTAR Center (with Glenn King)

Oct. 14, 2021

I took a half-hour ride out to the National Aerospace Training and Research (NASTAR) Center to take a tour with Glenn King, (COO, Director of Advanced Pilot & Space Training, and recent Netflix star) about their training, what they’ve been up to lately in this busy season of people going to space, and what the future may hold for spaceflight training. We tour their altitude chamber, spatial disorientation device, and high performance human centrifuge along with its various cockpits.

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Topics

• Audio Gear as of March 7, 2020
• National Aerospace Training and Research Center - NASTAR Center
• Orbital and Suborbital Human Spaceflight Training Programs - Space Training - NASTAR Center
• Argentinian man with disability hopes to go into outer space - Disability Insider
• Inspiration4 - Inspiration4 crew completes centrifuge training
• Countdown: Inspiration4 Mission to Space - Netflix

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