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 ...

space suits must serve several vital functions: provide oxygen, control temperature, permit movement, power communications, and protect against solar radiation. The Z-2 is the newest prototype ...

And in the future, they could look a lot ... When heading into space or coming home, NASA astronauts wear a bright orange suit similar in color to the safety vests Air Force pilots wear, and ...

Space suits—designed to provide oxygen and consistent ... Read more about past—and future—travels to the moon in our July cover story “50 years after Apollo 11, a new moon race is on.” ...

There is an air leak in a Russian module on the station, and space suits aboard the station have ... "billions of dollars in an effort to build future hubs" in space. Some of the entrepreneurs ...

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 percent oxygen instead of 20 percent, the person ...