On February 7, 1984, 370 kilometres above the earth, NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless II floated into the payload bay of the ...

Those special suits, which are being modified from old Space Shuttle suits, are slated to be complete just months before the planned launch. That means there’s very little room for the ...

Four undergrads at Texas Christian University joined forces to create a seam that is meant to prevent lunar dust from ...

And you thought you had a nose for bargains. Two college students discovered a set of NASA flight suits at a thrift store in Titusville, Florida, and paid 20 cents per outfit for the rare finds.

The current U.S. space suit used by NASA is a dinosaur. Designed in 1992, it was only ever intended to be used by crews aboard the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station (ISS).

Typical space shuttle suits weighed about 33 lbs (15 kilograms), while Boeing's new suit weighs about 12 lbs (5.4 kilograms). Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacesuit. NASA Kennedy/Flickr ...

The first space shuttle astronauts were flying a kind of craft no space agency had flown before – a genuine spaceplane design. So NASA, being NASA, was exceedingly cautious about their safety ...

Given the dwindling inventory of shuttle suits left to serve at the station, and the need for a new suit for the Orion vehicle, we need to put the Z-series on real astronauts—on real space jobs ...

Unveiled Wednesday, the new "Boeing Blue" spacesuits for the Starliner capsule weigh about 20 lbs. each with all of their accessories, compared to 30 lbs. for the old space shuttle suits, NASA ...

The Kennedy Space Center unveiled its newest exhibition – the flight suit worn by Astronaut Michael López-Alegría’s during the first Axiom Mission.

Real astronaut Neil Armstrong wore a bulky Michelin Man moon suit, and from 1995 space shuttle astronauts launching into orbit wore orange outfits known as “pumpkin suits.” ...