Modern suits, like NASA’s Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU), allow astronauts to control their internal environment during spacewalks. Mobility is another important part of space suit ...

Boeing’s new space suits, which the company reportedly nicknamed “Boeing Blue,” are a lot less bulky than the ones typically used by modern astronauts ... According to NASA, the new suit ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

and space suit problems have plagued the space station for the past decade. The Inspector General report had raised concerns that if NASA had to extend the ISS past 2030, it could face budget ...

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.