NASA has announced a deal to share space in its Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory — a massive swimming pool in Houston that offers astronauts a simulated low-gravity environment for training — to an oil ...

NASA is tracking a new asteroid the size of a swimming pool that has a 1 in 600 chance of impacting Earth. It is estimated to make its closest approach to Earth on Valentine's Day in the year 2046.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

HOUSTON—Before astronauts can launch into space, they have to go for a swim. The pool sits inside a big, windowless building in Houston, on the grounds of NASA’s Johnson Space Center. It is about 40 ...

The process of designing a new spacecraft is a long, exhaustive, technical one. Designs spend hours on drawing boards, in 3D modeling programs, as scale prototypes, and in half-assembled ...