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 ...

NASA will announce its new astronaut class on Monday (Sept. 22) and discuss its upcoming Artemis 2 moon mission on Tuesday ...

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 ...

When NASA astronauts next visit the moon, it'll be a dark and shadowy expedition. The space agency's renewed moon ambitions, a mission called Artemis, aim to bring astronauts back to our well-cratered ...

An eerie image released by NASA reveals how the space agency is gearing up for some rather unique astronaut training. Captured from inside a giant tank of water at NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory ...

A Dec. 1 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows a photo of a large swimming pool filled with equipment and underwater structures. Additional photos show people in space suits performing ...

The four astronauts assigned to soar beyond the far side of the Moon on NASA’s Artemis II mission settled into their seats inside a drab classroom last month at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. It ...

The NBL training is indeed pretty awesome, but it's only one part of what astronauts work through to be ready on orbit. As Lee noted here, the physics of a pressurized suit in water are pretty ...

A rendering of what Blue Abyss’ astronaut training facility in Brook Park may look like when built in 2026. Credit: Blue Abyss Brook Park’s foray into commercial astronaut training is heating up. NASA ...

HOUSTON — One month after being announced to the world, NASA's ten new astronaut candidates are reporting to work to begin two years of training. The four women and six men, who were chosen from a ...