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, ...

This summer, ESA’s astronaut candidates have been splashing about at the pool – but not just for fun. They’ve been involved in ‘extravehicular activity (EVA) pre-familiarisation’, a vital part of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Vertex Aerospace has secured a potential 10-year, $265.2 million contract to support the operations of a human spaceflight training facility located at the Sonny Carter Training Facility of NASA’s ...

WASHINGTON, June 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA has awarded a contract to Vertex Aerospace, LLC of Madison, Mississippi, for labor support to ensure continuing safe operations of the Sonny Carter ...

In order to become an astronaut you have to go through some incredibly rigorous training, and part of that occurs in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, where astronauts can get a feel for zero gravity ...

Raytheon Technical Services Company LLC, a subsidiary of Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN), is joining NASA Aug. 3 in celebrating 10 years of astronaut training at the Johnson Space Center’s Neutral ...

NASA is developing new spacesuits for its planned missions to the moon. Astronauts are testing the spacesuits in a giant pool: the Neutral Buoyancy Lab in Houston, Texas. The pool mimics the feeling ...

HOUSTON, Aug. 12, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- KBR (NYSE: KBR) and Axiom Space recently completed three successful crewed underwater tests of the Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AxEMU) at NASA's ...