Jeff Bezos’s fiancé Lauren Sánchez revamped the classic astronaut suit with a “sexy” designer upgrade for Blue Origin’s first all-female flight to space on Monday morning. Shortly before the historic ...

“What?” NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson exclaimed after her fellow Shane Kimbrough radioed her saying, “Peggy, I don’t have a shield.” It was Thursday, March 30, 2017, and Whitson was tethered to the ...

When you think of astronauts gearing up for space, chances are your brain goes straight to those big, puffy suits—think Michelin Man meets fishbowl helmet. So when actual photos surfaced of Katy Perry ...

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 ...

Dava Newman is so enamored with her hometown of Helena she decided to give ExplorationWorks an item many other museums would clamor for: an out-of-this-world space suit she designed. “It’ll be the ...

Nancy-Lee Rodden was given an unexpected task after she got an accounting degree in college and started working. “One of my first jobs was to figure out how much it cost to build a space suit,” said ...

NASA’s astronauts are preparing to walk on the Moon again—this time in a suit built for a new era. The space agency has begun ...

As NASA prepared astronauts for its second mission into space, National Geographic had exclusive behind-the-scenes access for the intense and out-of-this-world training these pioneers underwent.

If there's one thing astronauts know, it's "practice, practice, practice." The next astronauts headed to the moon are preparing for all contingencies as their mission approaches, and they recently ...