Space Communications Specialist Alexandra Doten, AKA Astro Alexandra, on the gear designed for future space travel, what will ...

Boeing suits are a nod to NASA's past. SpaceX went the other way, with a futuristic design. The difference may affect how two astronauts finally fly home. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams ...

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

A spacesuit has to protect an astronaut from the vacuum of space ... and have vastly overworked their original 15-year-life design. Suit No. 1 was only used for certification, while suit two ...

The Starman suits, as they've been called, are all in one piece and customised for the astronaut. Their look was conceived by Hollywood costume designer Jose Fernandez, who has worked on Captain ...

because fundamentally it's a pressure suit that has to survive in a vacuum." But Musk said he wanted to design a spacesuit to inspire kids to become astronauts and don the uniform themselves ...

Cue a new design for full-body ... “Additionally, astronauts currently have only one liter of water available in their in-suit drink bags.” For multi-hour spacewalks, that’s not much.

The suit is called AxEMU (Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit) and is designed to provide astronauts with maximum comfort and ...

Beyond the fact that Hollywood costume designer Jose Fernandez ... information we’ve ever had about how astronauts store, wear, and operate the suit. [Soichi] starts by showing off the ...