When NASA sent Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the Moon, it put the best of American science and engineering to the test.

Chief among those tasks was designing the first space suit that could sustain life on a natural satellite. Designers were required to come up with a suit that could create a tiny atmosphere for ...

Mercury/Gemini: The first space suits were modified U.S. Navy jet-aircraft pressure suits. Neoprene-coated nylon lined the inside; aluminized nylon covered the exterior. Apollo: Custom-tailored ...

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The new spacesuit that will go to the moon sometime in the 2030s looks similar to the ones worn by some of the Apollo ...

I don’t like it.” On the afternoon of Jan. 27, clad in their space suits, the crew boarded the Apollo 1 capsule, perched high atop the Saturn IB. Grissom noticed a strange odor, like soured ...

Space suits—designed to provide oxygen and consistent ... travels to the moon in our July cover story “50 years after Apollo 11, a new moon race is on.” ...

Space Communications Specialist Alexandra Doten, AKA Astro Alexandra, on the gear designed for future space travel, what will be worn on the moon’s south pole.