space suits must serve several vital functions: provide oxygen, control temperature, permit movement, power communications, and protect against solar radiation. The Z-2 is the newest prototype ...

back to the top- Spacesuits for the space shuttle era are pressurized at 4.3 pounds per square inch (psi), but because the gas in the suit is 100 percent oxygen instead of 20 percent, the person ...

Aerospace giant Boeing also has a contract with Nasa to carry astronauts to the space station in its CST-100 Starliner spacecraft. It has developed a pressure suit to protect astronauts during the ...

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 ...

A SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft caught up with the International Space Station and moved in for docking Sunday.

Have space suit, will travel. On Thursday morning, Jared Isaacman, the billionaire founder of payments company Shift4 Payments, took the first commercial space walk as part of the Polaris Dawn ...

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He once blew up a power strip with a space heater and a Marshall half-stack. We’re in the process of testing several new space heaters ahead of the coming winter. We’ve added details to our ...

Space tourism has its fans — and its critics. Private companies are offering many opportunities to make the leap off Earth, ranging from a quick suborbital hop to a multi month stay on the ...

Jared Isaacman, the billionaire leading the Polaris Dawn mission, and Sarah Gillis, a SpaceX engineer, exited and re-entered their spacecraft in a test of commercial space technologies.

Carlos Toro and teammate Joe Romiero filming a dangerous Tiger shark, Bahamas, 2015. Last week, I flew to 70,000 feet above the Earth in the backseat of the U-2 spy plane (link below). As such, I ...

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