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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

HOUSTON, Aug. 12, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- KBR (NYSE: KBR) and Axiom Space recently completed three successful crewed underwater tests of the Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AxEMU) at NASA's ...