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 ...

The suit, the first really designed to fit astronauts of different builds and genders, was created with the help of Italian fashion giant Prada—marking another interesting space collaboration.

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 ...

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 ...

They were wearing new spacesuits — the first time the company's suits were tested by humans in space. The astronauts wore the spacesuits for part of the 19-hour-long flight to the International ...

At the International Astronautical Congress in Milan, Italy, Axiom Space and Italian luxury fashion house Prada unveiled ... experts to develop the AxEMU suit, ensuring durability and comfort ...

Crew-9 will carry only two astronauts to make space for Williams and Wilmore. A suitable spacesuit for Wilmore will be sent to the ISS with Crew-9. Williams will use a SpaceX suit already ...