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 ...

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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 ...

When NASA astronauts next visit the moon, it'll be a dark and shadowy expedition. The space agency's renewed moon ambitions, a mission called Artemis, aim to bring astronauts back to our well-cratered ...

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 ...

Over the last two years Kayla Barron of Richland has learned to fly a T-38 jet. She’s also been on six-hour simulated space walks at Houston’s John Space Center’s 40-foot-deep pool that simulates the ...

The next astronaut moon crew did some pool practice to simulate their splashdown in the open water. When their mission comes to an end after their Orion spacecraft reenters Earth's atmosphere, the ...