CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–In the 40 years that humans have been traveling into space, the suits they wear have changed very little. The bulky, gas-pressurized outfits give astronauts a bubble of protection, ...

Astronaut suits are evolving far beyond the bulky systems used during earlier space missions. Modern space suit technology is now focused on helping astronauts move more naturally while surviving the ...

One of the winning designs selected by the jury of ESA’s Space Suit Design Competition. The competition collected ideas from the public on what a future European extra-vehicular activity (EVA) suit ...

The misquoted phrase is so ingrained in popular culture that it has become the standard comeback to any unexpected mishap. It’s also the last phrase NASA’s Artemis II mission control wants to hear in ...

We’ve all seen it, the glossy visors, sculpted armor, and sleek silhouettes of sci-fi space suits that look decades ahead of anything NASA’s ever launched. From Prometheus to Sunshine, filmmakers have ...

When Jared Isaacman popped out of the hatch of the Dragon spaceship Resilience and into the vacuum of space, he really looked pretty spiffy. For the first time in history, a private citizen got ...

Ahead of the Polaris mission aiming to execute the first commercial spacewalk, SpaceX has revealed the next-gen spacesuit that will be at the center of it all. The company calls it the Extravehicular ...

China is planning to put people on the Moon around 2030 and is showing off the new space suits they'll be wearing. At a media event, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) had two astronauts put the ...

If you think the space race ended with the moon landing, it's time for an update. Space travel is slowly growing from the ultra-exclusive purview of governments to the environment of the exploring ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When Michael Lopez-Alegria commanded the first privately funded crewed mission to visit the ...