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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

HOUSTON -- When astronauts prepare for future missions to the International Space Station, the advance training for the specific tasks they'll carry out on the ISS is obviously crucial. But here on ...

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 ...