Space suits are high-tech marvels designed to protect astronauts from space’s extreme conditions. Discover the materials, ...

They all wore a white spacesuit. And they're not alone. Beyond NASA, space programs in countries like Russia and China also use white suits. Not the colors of the Russian flag or China's iconic ...

NASA confirmed in a report that Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano almost died during a spacewalk outside the International ...

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 ...

Photograph by BILL STAFFORD AND ROBERT MARKOWITZ, NASA But fashion is fickle, and technology grows apace. Space historian Roger Launius says the first suits were based on what jet pilots wore.

The decision proved to be a good one, and the space suits served all 12 Americans who have walked on the Moon. In fact, the company is still responsible for producing NASA’s space suits to this day.

The space suits used by the astronauts on Gemini 7, known as grasshopper suits, were designed for comfort. But after two weeks inside them, that was the last thing on the crew’s minds.

This shielding technology isn’t just new — it’s been tested and proven. Vollebak’s Shielding Suit uses the same electromagnetic shielding techniques that NASA used for its Mars Rover.