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

Space historian Roger Launius says the first suits were based on what jet pilots wore. Over time they’ve evolved into autonomous modules that help astronauts negotiate the inky expanse ...

NASA confirmed in a report that Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano almost died during a spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) in July 2013. The E ...

Bleeding the suit beyond its safety limits to make ... White later became one of the first casualties of the space race, dying in 1967 in a launch-pad fire that consumed the Apollo 1 mission ...

The suit, the first really designed to fit astronauts of different builds and genders, was created with the help of Italian fashion giant Prada—marking another interesting space collaboration.

A local man is preparing to suit up as a life-size space ranger action figure. The goal: to journey to children’s hospitals ...

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 ...