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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Teams at an underwater facility in Houston, Texas, are making preparations to train astronauts who are preparing for future missions to the Moon. This facility is being modified to recreate the harsh ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — It’s not too late to be an astronaut. NASA doesn’t have an age limit for this gig, and the basic requirements aren’t as onerous as you might think. The odds of scoring one of those coveted ...

Researchers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have found that many early distant galaxies bear a striking resemblance to everyday objects like pool noodles. Rather than the familiar spirals or ...