The South Sandwich Islands were born from a tectonic collision, forged by volcanism and relentlessly reshaped by ice, wind ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It may have been more of a plop than a giant splash, but NASA’s latest impact test for its next-generation Orion spacecraft will nevertheless provide engineers with plenty of useful data as it ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...