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, ...

For most of us, job training conjures images of windowless meeting rooms and white boards. For NASA astronauts, however, training requires a bit more of an exotic locale. Specifically, it requires a ...

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 ...

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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 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 ...

Although scuba divers may appear to be "as free as a fish," they're actually loaded down with quite a bit of gear. The Avelo System is designed to help in that regard, as it moves the functionality of ...

These amazing photographs show NASA astronauts hard at work training for missions in space - in the world's largest pool. The U.S. space agency has built a swimming pool 10 times as large as an ...