Project sidekick

ESA's Matthias Maurer using a mixed reality prototype during the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) 21 mission began on 21 July 2016, in the the undersea Aquarius Reef Base, 20 m below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean off the  Florida Keys. The NEEMO 21 crew performed research inside and outside the habitat during a 16-day simulated space mission.

ESA astronaut Tim Peake tested the same augmented-reality project during his mission on the International Space Station. Project sidekick aims to help astronauts work more efficiently by overlaying information and allowing mission control to ‘look over their shoulder'.