The space suits worn during SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission are a sci-fi reimagining of NASA’s classic marshmallow suits. There ...

The Boeing Starliner mission is set to return without its astronauts. Now, these stranded astronauts are ditching their ...

Two private astronauts conducting the first commercial spacewalk did not so much float out of their spacecraft as they did "stand up." Polaris Dawn crewmates Jared Isaacman and Sarah Gillis took turns ...

Astronaut Cady Coleman had to make do when NASA decided not to use small ... spacewalking tasks when we are weightless. EVA training was the most physically difficult thing I did as an astronaut. The ...

On September 16, 1994, NASA astronaut Mark C. Lee tested out SAFER, or the Simplified Aid for EVA Rescue (SAFER) system. It ...

Collins and Axiom Space were selected by NASA in June 2022 for its xEVAS commercially developed spacesuits program to cook up a pair of suits for the ISS and one for NASA's Artemis missions to the ...

Having not delivered any new mission-ready extravehicular suits since then, NASA is running out of spacesuits. In fact, NASA are down to just four flight-ready EVA suits. Since 2009, NASA has ...

At 700 kilometres above Earth, Thursday’s historic SpaceX spacewalk took place higher than any previous NASA spacewalk, and featured cutting-edge technology. According to SpaceX, the new ...

Unlike the bulky NASA EVA suits, SpaceX's suits don't have an integrated life support system. That makes them somewhat less versatile but grants much better freedom of movement. During the ...

and rather than go the traditional route of taking that suit and putting it in the water, which is the analog that NASA has used for a while for training spacewalks — we didn't have the luxury ...

The SpaceX Dragon, meanwhile, is 26.7 feet long and 13 feet wide. As NASA explained in a statement to USA Today, "suits for different providers are not designed to be compatible outside of their ...