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NASA tests key spacesuit parts inside this icy chamber
When NASA astronauts return to the moon under the Artemis campaign and eventually venture farther into the solar system, they ...
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Why SpaceX suits look so sleek, and NASA’s look so clunky
When Jared Isaacman popped out of the hatch of the Dragon spaceship Resilience and into the vacuum of space, he really looked pretty spiffy. For the first time in history, a private citizen got ...
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NASA’s new Prada-designed space suit looks like an Apollo dupe, but it’s so much more
the new suit is based on the original lunar space suit developed by NASA in 2019, which was called the Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU). The AxEMU was revealed earlier this month ...
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NASA explains why it didn’t have enough space suits for an all-female spacewalk
NASA’s explanation was that McClain wouldn’t have a space suit available to her for the spacewalk due to sizing, since Christina Koch will be wearing the medium-sized suit that McClain wore ...
Katy Perry, Lauren Sanchez show off Blue Origin flight suits that bring ‘spice to space’
Katy Perry shared images of the flight suits, re-designed in part by Lauren Sanchez, that she and the all-female crew will be wearing for the Blue Origin launch.