NASA astronauts train in world's largest swimming pool

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The U.S. space agency has built a swimming pool 10 times as large as an Olympic pool in an attempt to prepare astronauts for the experience of weightlessness. The Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory(NBL) is located at the Sonny Carter Training Facility, near NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

The U.S. space agency has built a swimming pool 10 times as large as an Olympic pool in an attempt to prepare astronauts for the experience of weightlessness. The Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory(NBL) is located at the Sonny Carter Training Facility, near NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. [Photo/Xinhua]


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