Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Giant swimming pool helps NASA plan emergency spacewalks
[ Wed, 4 Aug 2010 15:09:42 GMT ]

In this 2008 photo, a scale model of the Orion spacecraft is lowered into the 6.2-million-gallon Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory at NASA's Johnson Space Center. A malfunctioning pump in a vital cooling system onboard the International Space Station sent NASA scrambling to plan two emergency spacewalks this week to replace the faulty component module. At the center of that planning is a huge swimming pool in Texas.


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