NASA’s new Prada-designed space suit looks like an Apollo dupe, but it’s so much more
Called the Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit, the new suit is based on the original lunar space suit developed by NASA in ...
Only A Bra Manufacturer Could Make NASA’s $100,000 Apollo Space Suits
When NASA sent Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the Moon, it put the best of American science and engineering to the test.
Astronauts at the center of Starliner drama step out for spacewalk after more than 7 months in orbit
Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are conducting a spacewalk outside the International Space Station to remove ...
The astronaut who almost died on a spacewalk: how the suit that prevented tragedy works
NASA confirmed in a report that Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano almost died during a spacewalk outside the International ...
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Southwest Harbor space suit designer is shooting for the moon
Homer has been in the space suit business since 2007, he said, which was the year he won NASA’s (National Aeronautics and ...
NASA astronaut Suni Williams becomes woman with most hours spent on spacewalks
NASA astronaut Suni Williams set a female spacewalk record after venturing outside the International Space Station with ...
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How Neil Armstrong's Moon Spacesuit Was Preserved for Centuries to Come
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How Space Suits Are Evolving for Missions Beyond the Moon
Yet in some ways they’ve hardly changed. Now as then, a space suit is essentially a gas-filled, human-shaped covering. (Exceptions include the form-fitting suits Dava Newman is developing at MIT ...
Photos: NASA’s Mars Rover tech-infused suit uses silver to shield from radio, radar waves
Vollebak’s Shielding Suit uses the same electromagnetic shielding techniques that NASA used for its Mars Rover. The suit ...
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How daredevil stuntman survived fall after jumping from space to Earth at 850mph
A daredevil stuntman broke the sound barrier when he jumped from the edge of space back down to Earth in 2012. In 2012, ...
Sunita Williams, stuck in space, breaks spacewalking record at International Space Station
The event was livestreamed by NASA on YouTube and their website, marking Williams' ninth spacewalk and the 92nd spacewalk by ...