Dubai: Emirati astronauts Hazzaa Al Mansoori and Sultan AlNeyadi are in the thick of their training at NASA’s Johnson Space Centre in Houston, Texas, in preparation for future space missions, including space walks.
In a video tweeted by the Dubai Media Office on Monday, Al Mansoori and AlNeyadi were shown underwater at NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) doing manoeuvres mimicking the environment in space.
“Hazzaa and Sultan continue their journey at Johnson Space Centre. They underwent NBL training, one of the best methods to prepare astronauts for spacewalks,” tweeted DMO.
NBL is an astronaut training facility, featuring a large indoor pool of water designed to provide neutral buoyancy to simulate the microgravity that astronauts would experience during spaceflight.
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