To prepare astronauts for the moon, NASA uses a giant water tank

Now it's an Aquaman.

As NASA prepares for a return to the moon in 2024, it uses a huge reservoir of water to help potential astronauts prepare for the challenges of space.

The government agency said one of the tools it uses to prepare for eventual return is the neutral buoyancy lab at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. NASA said it was in the "early stages" of assessing how astronauts would live and work on the moon. The aquatic environment allows them to move, create habitats, collect samples and deploy experiments, just as they would on the moon.

"NASA astronauts are wearing weighted vests and backpacks to simulate walking on the moon, which has one sixth of Earth's gravity," NASA said in a blog post.

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The space agency added that astronauts Drew Feustel and Don Pettit were among those currently training in the pool, which "is mainly used to train astronauts for extravehicular sorties aboard the International Space Station. ".

NASA's Artemis program, which aims to land on the Moon of American astronauts by 2024, also aims to establish a sustainable human presence on Earth's natural satellite. Artemis, who will succeed the Apollo program, will make history by landing the first woman on the moon.

Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin – the second man to walk on the moon – predicted that the "Artemis" program would bring decades of progress, similar to what the United States saw with the Apollo program that launched into space.

"The five decades of Apollo[‘s legacy] from Apollo 1 to Apollo 17 … and now we are going to start the decades of Artemis, "he recently told Fox News as part of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Moon Landing.

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James Rogers and Sam Dorman of Fox News contributed to this story.