SpaceX has unveiled its extravehicular activity (EVA) suit for spacewalks. It plans to use them during its upcoming Polaris Dawn mission, where four astronauts will spend up to five days orbiting ...

The suit will protect wearers from all the intense environmental dangers of space while remaining comfortable and mobile. SpaceX based its EVA suit on its intra-vehicular (IVA) suit. The ultimate ...

In fact, NASA are down to just four flight-ready EVA suits. Since 2009 ... uses are more than 40 years old. 18 suits were developed for the Space Shuttle program in 1974 and have vastly overworked ...

Her Ph.D. work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology involved the development of a wearable pressure sensing system for extravehicular activity (EVA) space suit applications. This monitor ...

One of NASA’s two stuck astronauts got a much welcomed change of scenery Thursday, stepping out on her first spacewalk since ...