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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Juneau Paulsen (far right) and Ellie Taplin (left of Paulsen), both UW mechanical engineering majors, help direct the diver in NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) from the NBL control room. The ...

Members of UW’s Crater Cowboys team in NASA’s 2024 Micro-g Neutral Buoyancy Experiment Design Teams engineering design challenge are, from left: Maria Allen, of Parker, Colo.; Hanna Detmer, of ...

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 ...