NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson takes us behind the scenes with a fascinating demonstration of how to don a spacesuit. As she ...

Tennessee astronaut Barry "Butch" Wilmore has announced his retirement from NASA, concluding a distinguished 25-year career. Wilmore, who spent 464 days in space, said he is hanging up his spacesuit ...

The spacesuit contract with Axiom is more like the arrangement NASA makes with SpaceX for flying crew and cargo to the space station aboard Falcon 9 rockets and Dragon spacecraft; the company owns ...

NASA is preparing to send a woman and a man to the Moon in 2024, in what will be the first mission to the lunar surface in 52 years. The new spacesuit being designed for the mission is sleek ...

NASA aerospace engineer Sabrina Thompson's 'Girl in Space' organization is building an in-vehicle spacesuit designed for women first. It will be tested in a Mars analog next year.

The new EVA spacesuit from SpaceX is looking to change that, though. Revealed this week, SpaceX says the new suit will support the Polaris Dawn crew as they take on the first-ever commercial ...

Lewis said Armstrong’s spacesuit was essential to the success of the Apollo 11 mission. “Without that suit, Neil Armstrong could not have made that ‘one small step for man’ and stepped down out of the ...

The Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU), or spacesuit, has a battery that can offer 40Ah of energy. This would make the system highly efficient, as it consumes less than 5% of a spacesuit’s ...

A Russian cosmonaut was repeatedly ordered to drop what he was working on and return to the International Space Station’s airlock because of an issue with his spacesuit. The spacewalk was cut short.

With a crewed landing on the Moon still tentatively scheduled for 2025, NASA has decided to let their commercial partners take a swing at the problem, and has recently awarded contracts to two ...

The next Americans to set foot on the Moon will do so in a brand new spacesuit that's based on, but hugely improved from, the original Apollo suits that last went up there in the '70s. With easier ...