NASA Astronauts Perform Underwater Testing Of Tools For Future Mission To An Asteroid

Astronauts at NASA went underwater to test tools that would be used in a future mission to an asteroid planned for the 2020s. Stan Love and Steve Bowen, two experienced NASA astronauts who between them had spent more than 62 hours in space on nine shuttle mission spacewalks, went underwater in a 40-foot-deep swimming pool in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory at NASA's Johnson Space Center on Friday to help engineers determine what astronauts will need on the space agency's next asteroid mission.