(Original Caption) 1961- Wearing a high altitude pressure suit during tests in Republic Aviation's altitude chamber, a member of the Space Environment Laboratory checks his ventilation lines. The ...

Although space suits, which differ from pressure suits in subtle, but important ways, have been well covered in literature, pressure suits have gone unheralded except as introductions to the space ...

This first ever private spacewalk will be bringing some serious style to outer space. SpaceX's privately-funded crewed mission, Polaris Dawn, is moving toward a launch sometime this summer. The ...

One of the toughest problems of space navigation is to dress spacemen so they can live and function outside the controlled environment of their cabins. Even for high-altitude airplane pilots, ...

China is planning to put people on the Moon around 2030 and is showing off the new space suits they'll be wearing. At a media event, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) had two astronauts put the ...

Flagsuit LLC, a new startup founded by NASA Astronaut Glove Challenge winner Peter Homer, shipped their first commercially produced space suit gloves to Los Angeles-based Orbital Outfitters last month ...