When NASA sent Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the Moon, it put the best of American science and engineering to the test.
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 ...
Chief among those tasks was designing the first space suit that could sustain life on a natural satellite. Designers were required to come up with a suit that could create a tiny atmosphere for ...