The new suit was unveiled on SpaceX's website and ... but not in the vacuum of space. The new EVA suits contain material enhancements and joint improvements aimed at increasing astronauts ...

two women would be making a space station EVA together. That contingency had never been planned for, and it soon turned into a problem. When it was learned that only one medium suit was in good ...

Ahead of the Polaris mission aiming to execute the first commercial spacewalk, SpaceX has revealed the next-gen spacesuit that will be at the center of it all. The company calls it the ...

In fact, NASA are down to just four flight-ready EVA suits ... female spacewalk was postponed because the space station had only one medium-sized suit. This milestone was finally achieved when ...

Space exploration marked a historic milestone when first photograph of a human in space was taken during Alexei Leonov's ...

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 ...

NASA’s explanation was that McClain wouldn’t have a space suit available to her for the spacewalk due to sizing, since Christina Koch will be wearing the medium-sized suit that McClain wore ...

Narrator: But those white EVA suits aren't the only garment in an astronaut's closet. When heading into space or coming home, NASA astronauts wear a bright orange suit similar in color to the ...

Yet in some ways they’ve hardly changed. Now as then, a space suit is essentially a gas-filled, human-shaped covering. (Exceptions include the form-fitting suits Dava Newman is developing at MIT ...