Before walking on the moon, future astronauts may go for a swim. The famed Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) near NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston has trained hundreds of spacewalkers since 1992 ...

Gravity is one of those things without which life as we know it here on Earth could not have existed. Described by science as the force by which a planet or other body draws objects toward its center, ...

For most of us, job training conjures images of windowless meeting rooms and white boards. For NASA astronauts, however, training requires a bit more of an exotic locale. Specifically, it requires a ...

Businesses can now rent one of NASA’s simulators at Johnson Space Center. NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Lab, a super-sized swimming pool four-stories deep, simulates space for astronauts to train. It is so ...

The Roscosmos segment of the International Space Station is pictured this year as the orbital outpost soared 261 miles above the north Atlantic Ocean. The claim: Photo shows International Space ...

NASA has posted a 360 tour (above) of its Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. The tour offers an inside look at the facility, which is used to train astronauts for ...

A Virginia-based company has transformed the section of a submerged training facility to help Artemis astronauts train for upcoming moonwalks. Reading time 3 minutes Teams at an underwater facility in ...

Thirty-one student teams from across the country will test their designs in simulated microgravity this year as part of NASA’s Micro-g Neutral Buoyancy Experiment Design Teams (Micro-g NExT) activity.

Astronauts Anne McClain and Zena Cardman wiggled into their roughly 270-pound spacesuits attached to a platform. It’s a weight they wouldn’t have to shoulder in microgravity. But here, on the edge of ...

To simulate the microgravity of space, astronauts have practiced in an extremely large, 40-foot deep swimming pool in southeast Houston for more than 15 years. Now, with the retirement of the space ...

It takes a long time just to get into the suit astronauts wear for their training in the giant neutral buoyancy tank. But like Rookie astronaut Zena Cardman, space explorers spend their whole lives ...

Raytheon will continue its support of a NASA gravity simulation facility under a new potential seven-year, $154.5 million contract. Raytheon has won a potential seven-year, $154.5 million contract to ...