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 ...

The training air lock and spacesuit that Aleksei Leonov used in preparation for the first space walk in 1965. "In the vacuum of space, the suit expanded more than expected," Lewis explains ...

The first, Axiom Space, makes sense ... a significant advancement over the expendable scrubbing canisters used in previous suits. Despite Prada’s involvement, the AxEMU’s is less about ...

Today’s high-tech spacesuit materials are a far cry from the cotton and rubber used by early high-altitude ... of National Geographic magazine. Space suits—designed to provide oxygen and ...

For Blue Origin‘s first all-female space flight ... that will be used for NASA’s Artemis III lunar mission. Sanchez also codesigned Bezos’ Blue Origin astronaut suit, which he wore during ...

Lauren Sánchez teamed up with Monse to redesign the Blue Origin flight suits with its all-female ... Friedman What do you wear for your first trip to space? If you are like most people, probably ...

On 18 March 1965 Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to leave a space capsule and ... colour for maximum propaganda effect), his suit ballooned when no longer constrained ...

Suits like these worn in 1966 by Buzz Aldrin and Jim Lovell (right) were made to resist the extreme conditions of space travel for ... after which NASA used them either for training other ...

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 ...