Tag: NBL
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Students team up with NASA to tests tools for Artemis
Student teams from around the country have partnered with NASA to test prototype tools for upcoming Artemis missions. This week, students remotely directed divers at the Neutral Buoyancy Lab to test their designs, which addressed a variety of NASA’s needs through the Micro-g NExT program. This year’s testing was impacted significantly by the COVID-19 pandemic,…
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University of Essex propose training pool larger than the NBL
ESA astronaut Tim Peake has provided his backing for a University of Essex proposal to build the world’s deepest and largest pool for space and deep-sea research and training. Such a pool would provide the UK with its own “rival” to the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) at the Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston. Astro Pool:…
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Not quite Armageddon: Oil field workers to train at JSC’s NBL Facility
An agreement has been signed between Raytheon Technical Services and Petrofac Training Services to allow oil workers to train at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory’s giant pool. While training scenes for fictional oil workers were seen during the movie Armageddon, Petrofac’s team won’t be preparing to save the planet, instead using the facility to fine tune…