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 ...

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 ...

On a recent February afternoon, I strolled up to a fat, brightly painted yellow line and peered down into a clear, seemingly bottomless pool. Like the mythical sirens of the Homeric Age, the water ...

“Into the deep. At the bottom of a very dark swimming pool, divers are getting ready for missions to the Moon," reads a part of the post shared by Nasa. A post shared by NASA about a few of their ...

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 ...

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 ...