Engineers have had to come up with some interesting ways to generate oxygen for astronauts in the vacuum of space.

To explore and work in space, human beings must take their environment with them because there is no atmospheric pressure and no oxygen to sustain life. Inside the spacecraft, the atmosphere can ...

The conical capsule landed with the assistance of a parachute and was quickly recovered. The spacecraft carried a ...

Atmospheric pressure is evenly distributed ... This is also why astronauts need space suits: in space, where external ...

Today’s high-tech spacesuit materials are a far cry from the cotton and rubber used by early high-altitude pilots. This story appears in the July 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine.

Why? Because of the many factors which affect atmospheric pressure. Pioneering scientists discovered atmospheric pressure (also known as barometric or air pressure) in the 17th century ...

On planets orbiting close to their respective suns, surface water evaporates into space. Planets in the box have the right atmospheric pressure and the right temperature to keep surface water in a ...