A plunge into the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory with Reid Wiseman wearing the Extravehicular Mobility Unit for a development run. This training isn’t specific to Artemis II, but part of our role in the astronaut office is supporting testing for future spacesuits. This training is super fun but also gruelling. Thanks Catherine Hansen MD for the video! //Immersion dans le Laboratoire de flottabilité nulle avec Reid Wiseman. On porte une combinaison EMU pour un test de développement. Ce n’est pas lié

Pools, astronauts, and neutron stars? It’s not a joke! As part of tomorrow’s scheduled spacewalk, NASA Astronauts Nick Hague is slated to install patches to our NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer) X-ray telescope. To prepare for this activity, Hague and other astronauts rehearsed the NICER patch procedures in the NBL (Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory), a 6.2-million-gallon indoor pool at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, in 2024. Learn more about this training: https://go.nasa.go

Suit up with NASA astronaut Anil Menon. Johnson’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory in Houston provides astronauts an underwater atmosphere resembling zero gravity (weightlessness) to train for spacewalks. For years, NASA Astronauts have performed spacewalks outside the International Space Station for maintenance and upgrades while wearing the Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit. The spacesuit can weigh anywhere from about 250-300 pounds on the ground. Spacewalks are some of the most physical