For Artemis III, NASA’s astronauts will wear brand new space suits. Space Communications ... I write about haute couture and fashion history.

Photograph by BILL STAFFORD AND ROBERT MARKOWITZ, NASA But fashion is fickle, and technology grows apace. Space historian Roger Launius says the first suits were based on what jet pilots wore.

The new space suit is called the Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AxEMU), and Axiom Space has been working on it since at ...

A vital component of this mission will be an innovative space suit designed by the Italian fashion house Prada. This unique suit will protect astronauts during the planned Artemis III mission ...

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 ...