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| Team members Andrew and Danny plot and drill holes. |
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| Panorama view of the Sonny Carter Training Facility Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory |
The Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory consists of the water tank pictured above and its support facilities. This is where astronauts and engineers will perfect the techniques for building and operating the International Space Station (ISS) in the simulated weightless water environment.
The water tank is 202 feet long, 102 feet wide and 40 feet, 6 inches deep. It contains 6.2 million gallons of water!
Zero gravity is simulated under water by the use of specially weighted space suits creating "neutral buoyancy" conditions for realistic training of astronauts.
