Astronaut Nicole Stott, who has made it her mission to promote the healing power of art and the need to protect our planet, has inspired a new "Signature Edition" embroidered patch.

After a gap of more than a year, NASA successfully resumed spacewalks outside the International Space Station on Thursday.

The first, Axiom Space, makes sense ... Practically, this means the suit’s hard back is connected to the exterior of the Mars ...

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 ...

Homer has been in the space suit business since 2007, he said, which was the year he won NASA’s (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Astronaut Glove Challenge.

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 ...

space suits must serve several vital functions: provide oxygen, control temperature, permit movement, power communications, and protect against solar radiation. The Z-2 is the newest prototype ...