Space Communications Specialist Alexandra Doten, AKA Astro Alexandra, on the gear designed for future space travel, what will ...

the new suit is based on the original lunar space suit developed by NASA in 2019, which was called the Exploration ...

Nasa's Extravehicular Mobility Suit (EMU) was introduced in 1981 and is the other suit used at the space station ... EMU - though it's different from the modern design. It was the result of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

spacesuit that astronauts will wear during NASA's Artemis III mission, scheduled for launch in September 2026. Prada engineers worked alongside Axiom Space experts to develop the AxEMU suit ...