Space Systems Laboratory (Maryland)

The only such facility housed at a university, Maryland's neutral buoyancy tank is used for undergraduate and graduate research at the Space Systems Lab.

Ranger was funded by NASA starting in 1992, and was to be a technological demonstration of orbital satellite servicing.

The Space Systems Lab was founded at MIT in 1976, by faculty members Renee Miller and J.W.

Current projects include the MX-2 suit, a simplified neutral buoyancy spacesuit for use in EVA research; Power Glove, a prototype motorized spacesuit glove which will help reduce astronaut hand fatigue; and TSUNAMI, an apparatus to test human neuromuscular adaptation in different gravitational fields and different simulations of weightlessness.

[2][3] Along with labs at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford, the SSL is part of the Institute for Dexterous Space Robotics.