So many of our favorite space-based stories take place a long way from home. Even The Martian, which is among the most realistic science fiction stories in recent memory, takes place all the way on ...

Discover why astronauts must wear pressurized suits during space travel to ensure safety and protect against vacuum ...

SpaceX has unveiled a major update to its next-generation space suit, featuring redesigned systems meant to support longer ...

The popular French sports gear company Decathlon has designed a new suit for European astronauts to wear in orbit. The ...

Although space suits, which differ from pressure suits in subtle, but important ways, have been well covered in literature, pressure suits have gone unheralded except as introductions to the space ...

Polaris Dawn will launch on Monday, and the private space mission will do some ambitious and risky things. In a time when we regularly see multiple commercial spacecraft docked at the ISS at the same ...

Axiom Space is building the new spacesuits in a commercial partnership similar to the one between the space agency and SpaceX. By Kenneth Chang In space, moon suits are the height of fashion, and NASA ...

When NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station have to clamber around on the outside of the orbiting facility for maintenance or repairs, they don a spacesuit known as the Extravehicular ...

One of the toughest problems of space navigation is to dress spacemen so they can live and function outside the controlled environment of their cabins. Even for high-altitude airplane pilots, ...

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. Space ...