Swimming with Spacemen

[DeepGeek]

Even before I moved to Houston, I'd heard of Nasa's giant pool in which they trained astronauts. OMS used to do adverts bragging that the divers used OMS gear.

This is a great article about the Buoyancy Lab:
http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/03/swimming-with-spacemen/

Now, what a cool trip that would be...

 

[Sushi Boy]

That's a great article and the pictures are fantastic. Thanks for posting it DG!

They were our speaker at last Nov's monthly meeting. (One I'm sure that Mark, the presenter, won't soon forget . ) We were also fortunate enough to do a tour there in '06. There are a few photos in the Gallery. Unfortunately, they wouldn't let us get in the water .