Training and Development

Bastion supports both NASA and Commercial Astronaut Extravehicular Activity (EVA) training at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) in Houston, Texas with test operations in diving support, test direction, and safety operations. Bastion also provides Water Survival Training at the San Jacinto Maritime Center in LaPorte, Texas with a Helicopter Underwater Escape Training (HUET) simulator.

Recently, Bastion personnel were instrumental in successful completion of diving/swimming operations in preparation for the Artemis II launch. This series of diving/swimming operations is a subset of EGS’s Verification and Validation (V&V) campaign designed to gain approval for Open-Ocean CMTA Operations. These operations have been identified as necessary to allow EGS’s Open Water Lead to evaluate the Crew Module Test Article (CMTA) in a semi-controlled open-water environment. Specific operations scoped for this set of evaluations consist of seaworthiness, watertight integrity of both Outer Mold Line (OML) and Inner Mold Line (IML) in Stable-I, II & III orientations, stability in Stable-I & II orientations, towing stability and capabilities, Open-water Ground Support Equipment (GSE) interfacing, Docking & Side Hatch functionality, administrative rotation to/from Stable-II, and Manual Uprighting operations (MUPS). Read news article…

Bastion offers training program construction and training systems for your management, engineers, and installation professionals, as well as interactive operations procedures to direct the activities of a project. And, Bastion can coordinate with other engineering and service contractors to ensure that all tasks are completed successfully.