The notion of college students perching poolside during their summer break might seem utterly ordinary.
For a trio of undergraduates from Florida Polytechnic University, though, that recent experience was extraordinary.
In early June, the students traveled to Houston to participate in the Micro-g Neutral Buoyancy Experiment Design Teams challenge at Johnson Space Center. In the climax of their visit, the trio sat beside an indoor pool — the Neutral Buoyancy Lab at the NASA facility — and watched as a diver tested a tool they had designed for potential use in astronaut spacewalks outside the International Space Station…