Space suits are amazing pieces of technology designed to protect astronauts from the harsh environment of space while still allowing them to move around to complete their mission. Since the early ...

Narrator: But the spacesuits NASA currently uses are more than 40 years old. 18 suits were developed for the Space Shuttle program in 1974 and have vastly overworked their original 15-year-life ...

back to the top- Spacesuits for the space shuttle era are pressurized at 4.3 pounds per square inch (psi), but because the gas in the suit is 100 percent oxygen instead of 20 percent, the person ...

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 ...

SpaceX is not just launching rockets but a new era of space exploration with its cutting-edge extravehicular activity (EVA) suits. As we stand on the cusp of the first-ever private space walk in ...