Space Communications Specialist Alexandra Doten, AKA Astro Alexandra, on the gear designed for future space travel, what will be worn on the moon’s south pole.

Narrator: But the spacesuits NASA currently uses are more than 40 years old. 18 suits were developed for the Space Shuttle program in 1974 and have vastly overworked their original 15-year-life ...

Prada developed a space suit for the 2026 Moon landing, specifically for NASA's Artemis III mission ... about local resources ...

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.

Most recently, the NASA astronauts who have gone to the space station wore Russian Sokol suits, since the US had relied solely on Russian Soyuz spacecraft to launch its astronauts to the ISS since ...

Nasa chief Jim Bridenstine shared a close-up look at the next-generation suits for the agency's Artemis programme. The xEMU prototype suit looks similar to ones used at the International Space ...

Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will conduct a spacewalk outside the International Space Station to swab the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Vollebak’s Shielding Suit uses the same electromagnetic shielding techniques that NASA used for its Mars Rover. The suit ...

After a gap of more than a year, NASA successfully resumed spacewalks outside the International Space Station on Thursday. NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Suni Williams, dressed in pressurized NASA ...