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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 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 ...

Iowa State alumni and NASA Astronaut, Clayton Anderson, is providing students real-world aerospace engineering experience with the use of a neutral buoyancy lab at ISU. Anderson has taught at ISU for ...

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 ...

Mockup Facility to Raytheon Technical Services of Houston. The two-year base period for the contract is valued at $32.9 ...

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 ...