Go Through Virtual Spacewalk Training with NASA

This 360-degree immersive virtual reality (VR) viewing experience features exclusive astronaut training footage from NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) in Houston, TX. Produced by Harmonic, it offers a variety of perspectives - in the pool and out - as astronauts complete space-walk training for future missions to the International Space Station (ISS).

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00:00:00 NASA astronaut training spacewalk NASA VR 360 welcome to the neutral buoyancy lab at the Johnson Space Center in Houston this is the largest indoor pool in the world and contains a full-scale replica of the International Space Station with a support staff and a control center come dive in assisted by a team of support staff our

00:00:51 astronauts practice here for their upcoming missions to the ISS [Music] [Music] tasks include the repair and maintenance of crucial equipment as well as practicing zero-g maneuvers in their bulky space suit [Music] [Music]

00:02:09 but the time our astronauts perform a real spacewalk they will have spent more than 100 hours practicing inside the MBL [Music] thank you for joining us in NASA vo 360 NASA VR 360 [Music] [Applause] [Music]