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 ...

But the space suit itself will be so much heavier on Mars ... Learning about all of the details that go into simply sustaining human life so that an astronaut’s work can be done, made me see ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fans are celebrating EA's Motive Studios and their incredible attention to detail in Isaac's suit for its recently released remake of Dead Space. With some genuinely remarkable fidelity across all ...

At the International Astronautical Congress in Milan, Italy, Axiom Space and Italian luxury fashion house Prada unveiled the Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AxEMU) spacesuit that astronauts ...