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 ...

Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) was awarded a contract valued up to $154 million over seven years to continue support at NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory. The NBL is a massive 6.2 million gallon ...

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 ...

NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Lab is a massive pool with a full-size replica of the International Space Station inside. It's the closest an astronaut can get to training for zero gravity without leaving ...

NASA has made a giant step toward its upcoming Moon missions by converting its 6.2 million-gallon Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) into a lunar surface replica, Futurism tells us in a report. This ...

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 ...

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 ...

Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has received a potential seven-year, $154.5 million contract from NASA to support flight crew training and development efforts in the space agency’s Neural Buoyancy Laboratory at ...

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, June 20, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) was awarded a contract valued up to $154 million over seven years to continue support at NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory. The NBL ...