NSTL

NEO Space Thermal Laboratory: A cryogenic lab deep in the bowels of Johnson Space Center's Building-16 designed to gage the ability of future NASA astronauts (assuming they exist) to withstand working for long durations near absolute zero with minimal clothing.

Skill such as typing, making coffee and writing on a white board are being assessed. This research is deemed to be a game changing cross cutting technology necessary for CEV-Orion-MPCV-Whatev to reach a Near Earth Object.

Once a year on Innovation Day the overhead door of the NSTL is opened wide to create snow in the parking lot of Building-16. The male test subjects within the lab have been known to refer to the NSTL as the Nuts Stuck To Leg lab because of the effects of the bitter cold on the human anatomy.