Preparations for an upcoming spacewalk continued aboard the International Space Station (ISS) as astronauts conducted health ...

In a recent post on social media, she said she's "launching into the new year in style" at the Johnson Space Center and ...

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 ...

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.” ...

During this spacewalk, Williams and Hague will step out to replace a rate gyro assembly which provides orientation control ...

In October 2019, Nasa shared a close-up look at two next-generation suits ... It recalls the so-called Pumpkin suits used by space shuttle astronauts, but is more lightweight.

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 ...

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 ...