NASA confirmed in a report that Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano almost died during a spacewalk outside the International ...

back to the top- Spacesuits for the space shuttle era are pressurized at 4.3 pounds per square inch (psi), but because the gas in the suit is 100 percent oxygen instead of 20 percent, the person ...

For Artemis III, NASA’s astronauts will wear brand new space suits. Space Communications Specialist Alexandra Doten explains the requirements for gear intended to be worn on the moon’s south pole.

When NASA sent Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the Moon, it put the best of American science and engineering to the test.

This story appears in the July 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Space suits—designed to provide oxygen and consistent atmospheric pressure—have evolved from pressure suits for ...

space suits must serve several vital functions: provide oxygen, control temperature, permit movement, power communications, and protect against solar radiation. The Z-2 is the newest prototype ...

The suits had been in space before — but not on people Behnken and Hurley had practiced wearing the suits in flight simulations on the ground as well. "Bob and I have had a ton of time in those ...

On 18 March 1965 Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to leave a space capsule and ... colour for maximum propaganda effect), his suit ballooned when no longer constrained ...

President of Axiom Space, according to People. The AxEMU suits are designed to accommodate a wide range of astronauts, featuring a gender-neutral, unisex design that can adapt to different sizes ...

A daredevil stuntman broke the sound barrier when he jumped from the edge of space back down to Earth in 2012. In 2012, ...

It’s easy enough to make a tank-like suit that will protect a person from the rigors of space. But making a suit that does that, and also moves with something like grace and ease—that turned ...