How does WIRED's Brent Rose feel about being the first person outside of the space program to try on a pressurized space suit ...
Kathryn Sullivan said spacesuits for a women were a problem in the 1980s. For the first time in U.S. history, an all-woman team of astronauts — Anne McClain and Christina Koch — were scheduled to step ...
Boeing, Space X, Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic, and dozens of other companies have collaborated with NASA to make spaceflight more affordable, potentially even profitable, and safer. The mission to ...
Unless you’ve been living off the grid, you probably know that NASA is supposed to have humans land on Mars by the 2030s. That may seem like a long way off, but NASA is actually about to start ...
The sheer bulk of contemporary spacesuits ensures that there’s virtually no way to scratch an itch once the suit is worn. Astronauts have borne these hefty pressurized suits of armor for generations ...
An astronaut who missed out on the first all-female spacewalk because of a spacesuit sizing issue got her chance six years later on Thursday. NASA’s Anne McClain emerged from the International Space ...
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly begins his first-ever spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Oct. 28, 2015. Before NASA shot astronaut Scott Kelly into orbit for the first time in 1999, he ...
Sharon McDougle spent her career making sure that astronauts and pilots were safely suited up for their missions. In this video she works with Christopher Williams STEM specialist at the National ...
Quirky scenes show astronauts taking one wet leap for mankind. Researchers have been testing a new spacesuit underwater to mimic low-gravity conditions. NASA announced on Tuesday, Sept. 30, that it ...
The clip was recorded by NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson while she was on a 7-hour spacewalk with fellow astronaut Shane Kimbrough.
Jenee Fox was working out four years ago when an audio book about space suits – and the differences among those made in America, Europe and Russia – piqued her attention. She had a casual interest in ...