NOLS Leadership Training Comes in Handy in Outer Space

February 21, 2020

NASA astronaut in space, earth and sun in background

The eight members of NASA’s class of 2013 recently gave Men’s Health the inside scoop on their training, which includes customized NOLS courses. Cdr. Victor Glover, who participated in a leadership expedition in Colorado, reports that “survival training taught him role flexibility, to know when to lead and when to support.” 

“How many astronauts does it take to change a lightbulb? By the look of things on a recent morning in the NASA Neutral Buoyancy Lab at Johnson Space Center in Houston: two.

Plus hundreds of support personnel, including 14 divers suspended in the water with video cameras, all manner of tech support poolside, and a cadre of Starbucks-sipping flight operations specialists watching on screens in a control room overlooking the scene.”

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Brooke Ortel

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