A spacesuit has to protect an astronaut from the vacuum of space, from radiation ... developing the xEMU suit for its Artemis program, which plans to take humans back to the surface of the moon ...

back to the ... the side of the suit facing the Sun may be heated to a temperature as high as 250 degrees Fahrenheit; the other side, exposed to darkness of deep space, may get as cold as -250 ...

WASHINGTON--When three Russian cosmonauts arrived at the International Space Station wearing yellow flight suits with blue accents, some saw a message in them wearing the colors of the Ukrainian flag.

Beyond NASA, space programs in countries like Russia and China also use white suits. Not the colors of ... Cathleen Lewis: White is the color that reflects back the radiation most effectively ...

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 ...

This story appears in the August 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. On Earth, clothes make the man—and woman. In space, they’re the key to survival. Whether helping astronauts enter ...