The South Sandwich Islands were born from a tectonic collision, forged by volcanism and relentlessly reshaped by ice, wind ...

The Orion spacecraft is designed to carry astronauts to the moon and land in the ocean when it gets back. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Dec. 1 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows a photo of a large swimming pool filled with equipment and underwater structures. Additional photos show people in space suits performing ...

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 ...

NASA will be showing live footage of its Orion spacecraft water drop test on Tuesday afternoon. At 1:45 p.m. EDT, the space agency will hold a 7-ton test version of the Orion capsule over a huge pool ...