As SpaceX gears up for the first-ever private space walk with its innovative EVA suits, what are your thoughts on the impact of such technological advancements on the future of space exploration ...

Four SpaceX astronauts blasted off in a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Friday afternoon to the International Space Station to rescue ...

Now as then, a space suit is essentially a gas-filled ... unpressurized, and folded up. The downside is that, when inflated, they look like the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.” ...

The suits had been in space before — but not on people Behnken ... and don the uniform themselves — to "get them fired up," he said. "Everyone should be excited that this is a thing made ...

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 ...

Earth's atmosphere is 20 percent oxygen and 80 percent nitrogen from sea level to about 75 miles up ... of space. Without the Earth's atmosphere to filter the sunlight, the side of the suit ...