When NASA sent Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the Moon, it put the best of American science and engineering to the test.

Space historian Roger Launius says the first suits were based on what jet pilots wore. Over time they’ve evolved into autonomous modules that help astronauts negotiate the inky expanse ...

Bleeding the suit beyond its safety limits to make ... White later became one of the first casualties of the space race, dying in 1967 in a launch-pad fire that consumed the Apollo 1 mission ...

Artemis III, NASA’s first crewed moon landing since Apollo 17 in 1972, will outfit its astronauts in brand new space suits. Created by Axiom Space, who won a $228 million contract with NASA in ...

Chief among those tasks was designing the first space suit that could sustain life on a natural satellite. Designers were required to come up with a suit that could create a tiny atmosphere 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 ...

After a gap of more than a year, NASA successfully resumed spacewalks outside the International Space Station on Thursday.