Space suits are amazing pieces of technology designed to protect astronauts from the harsh environment of space while still allowing them to move around to complete their mission. Since the early ...

Inside the spacecraft ... wearer from the temperature extremes of space. Without the Earth's atmosphere to filter the sunlight, the side of the suit facing the Sun may be heated to a temperature ...

But why not shoot for the moon? Mercury/Gemini: The first space suits were modified U.S. Navy jet-aircraft pressure suits. Neoprene-coated nylon lined the inside; aluminized nylon covered the ...

After Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore returned earlier this week, many of us have been asking what happens to a dead body ...

It was an eight-day mission that turned into nine months. This is what Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore survived ...

A modern space suit designed for spacewalks ... astronauts spend several hours breathing pure oxygen inside a pressurized air lock to minimize their chances of getting the bends.

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 ...