The recent reports suggest that the Feitian spacesuits have exceeded their expected lifespan — with one suit used 17 times.

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When Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft malfunctioned, Williams and Wilmore became long-term residents on the space station—and ...

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NASA’s Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, whose weeklong Boeing Starliner mission turned into an extended stay in space, have ...

Since those early steps, extravehicular activity has helped provide the solutions to many problems that astronauts face in ...

The two test pilots came to NASA via the Navy. Wilmore, 62, played high school and college football in his home state of Tennessee before joining the Navy. Williams, 59, grew up in Needham, ...

"As soon as we can get it going, we would want to start having some type of presence on the moon sustainably," she told ...

NASA removed two astronauts from its Crew-9 mission to allow for Williams and Wilmore to join the cohort, and return onboard ...

“When I talk about them, I sometimes joke that they’re like the Gilligan’s Island crew," retired NASA shuttle ... the International Space Station. Wearing blue flight suits, the four Crew ...

But outside the spacecraft, they carry oxygen tanks. Their space suits contain two types of gases—oxygen and nitrogen. These ensure they can breathe in the vacuum of space. Spacecraft are ...