Sentences with phrase «equip aquanauts»

But the nascent quest to equip aquanauts to live in «inner space,» as some called the vast undersea realm, never got anything close to the billions of dollars pumped into launching the Apollo astronauts into outer space, birthing an industry and defining the global zeitgeist.

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The wood - paneled walls around Koblick's office are filled with memorabilia that attest to his years as an undersea pioneer and a genuine player in a decades - long quest to turn ordinary divers into «aquanauts,» the name applied to those equipped to live on the seabed, much as crews launched into space get to be called astronauts.

Equipped like a camper, it had bunks, galley, toilet, shower, and a hole in the floor so that four aquanauts could come and go.