18 suits were developed for the Space Shuttle program in 1974 and have vastly overworked their original 15-year-life design. Suit No. 1 was only used for certification, while suit two was ...

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 ...

pilot a space shuttle, or travel to Mars, space suits must serve several vital functions: provide oxygen, control temperature, permit movement, power communications, and protect against solar ...

Boeing's bright blue Starliner IVA suits are smaller and lighter than the ones astronauts wore aboard the Space Shuttle, according to a 2017 report by The Verge (that's the year Boeing revealed ...

The Space Force's unmanned X-37B blasted into orbit from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in December 2023 on a secret mission.

Their son, Jim Halsell, was a NASA astronaut. With five shuttle missions under his space suit, three of them were on board Columbia. His parents have been at the Kennedy Space Center for every one ...