The South Sandwich Islands were born from a tectonic collision, forged by volcanism and relentlessly reshaped by ice, wind ...
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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
Normally used to train spacewalking astronauts, one of the world’s largest indoor pools at, NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, instead will test the skills this weekend of more than 40 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Researchers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have found that many early distant galaxies bear a striking resemblance to everyday objects like pool noodles. Rather than the familiar spirals or ...