Aquanauts and Astronauts

Wind the clock back to 1969 in this gem from NASA. While the Apollo astronauts trudged around on the moon, a team of aquanauts in an underwater lab drifted north in the core of the Gulf Stream. This is the story of the Ben Franklin submersible and its legacy in the modern science of oceanography.

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