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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...