Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (Houston, Texas)

USA / Texas / Pasadena / Houston, Texas
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The NBL is part of the Sonny Carter Training Facility. This is a 40 ft deep, 200 feet long, and 100 feet wide pool. It holds 6 millions gallons of water. This is where the astronauts train for their spacewalks. In a twist of irony, spacewalks, which take place in a vacuum, is practiced and rehearsed in an atmosphere denser than the air we live in, water. It is the water which provides buoyancy and can help us simulate zero gravity conditions.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral_Buoyancy_Laboratory
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Coordinates:   29°36'28"N   95°8'38"W
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