Siegfried Hansen, an electrical engineer and inveterate tinkerer who 50 years ago pioneered the hard space suit only now being used in NASA missions, died of pneumonia June 28 at a convalescent ...

From 1966 through the 1990s, NASA Ames worked on a series of hard space suits designed for greater mobility. This is one of the earlier models, from 1966. That's inventor Vic Vykukal inside.

It’s hard to find a space suit design that’s more iconic than the one from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. These suits appear a couple of times in the film in a couple of different ...

It's not just a space suit. The 240-pound Extra-Vehicular Mobility Unit is a "one-man spaceship," says Ed Francis, a vice president at space-suit maker Hamilton Sundstrand. He tells Steve Inskeep ...

The “Z-1 Prototype Spacesuit and Portable Life Support System (PLSS) 2.0,” to give it its proper name, is what is called a “rear-entry space suit” made up of a combination of several hard ...

Why don’t space suits inflate like a Michelin Man when on the Moon or outside the Space Station? They very easily could! If you had a poorly designed space suit or an overly pressurized suit, an ...

Space suits are high-tech marvels designed to protect astronauts from space’s extreme conditions. Discover the materials, innovations, and future of these suits.

However, the moon suit needed to be tough for walking around the surface, not just floating in space. Hard suits, which were still pressurized within, were one solution.

The space suits worn during SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission are a sci-fi reimagining of NASA’s classic marshmallow suits. There’s a good reason why they look so different. When Jared Isaacman ...

NASA’s development for its new astronaut space suits will be nearly two years late and preclude its effort to land humans on the Moon by 2024, an inspector general report released on August 10th ...