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 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.

Whether helping astronauts enter Earth orbit, walk on the moon, pilot a space shuttle, or travel to Mars, space suits must serve several vital functions: provide oxygen, control temperature ...

When NASA sent Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the Moon, it put the best of American science and engineering to the test.

Nicole Stott is the latest astronaut to lend her autograph to the Space Hipsters Signature Edition ... colorful outer layers of astronauts' flight suits and spacesuits. Since 2016, the global ...

back to the top- Spacesuits for the space shuttle era are pressurized at 4.3 pounds per square inch (psi), but because the gas in the suit is 100 ... tasks in space, an astronaut has to spend ...

They were wearing new spacesuits — the first time the company's suits were tested by humans in space. The astronauts wore the spacesuits for part of the 19-hour-long flight to the International ...

Having not delivered any new mission-ready extravehicular suits since then ... A spacesuit has to protect an astronaut from the vacuum of space, from radiation coming from the sun and other ...

The space suits onboard the ISS were originally designed with male astronauts in mind ... Although the concept of "diversity quotas" has historically been divisive, the first place to start ...