Narrator:Felix Baumgartner is making a journey to the edge of space. His survival will rely on two crucial pieces of equipment, his pressure suit ... Joe Kittinger:That's his parachute.

The suit is far more elaborate than the long-ago Mercury model and far more expensive, the product of a $228-million contract NASA issued to Axiom in 2022. But there is good reason for the bump in ...

When Jared Isaacman popped out of the hatch of the Dragon spaceship Resilience and into the vacuum of space ... and scrubbing ...

Space suits are often worn inside spacecraft as a safety precaution in case of loss of cabin pressure, and are necessary for extra-vehicular activity (EVA), work done outside spacecraft.

Today’s high-tech spacesuit materials are a far cry from the cotton and rubber used by early high-altitude pilots. This story appears in the July 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine.

This story appears in the August 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. On Earth, clothes make the man—and woman. In space, they’re the key to survival. Whether helping astronauts enter ...

This suit is not just for any space mission (no offense, SpaceX), but Artemis III, which will embark on the first human moon landing since 1972, spearheaded by NASA and Axiom Space. The mission ...

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 ...

Along with companies like Boeing, SpaceX is attempting to reimagine the possibilities of what a space suit can be. Let's take a look at the evolution of the space suit, and dive into changes ...

The space suits that the Artemis 3 astronauts will wear on their mission to the Moon have been revealed. The futuristic uniforms have been co-designed for US space agency Nasa by Italian fashion ...

“It is a revolution in the design of spacesuits,” said Russell Ralston, the executive vice president for extravehicular activity for Axiom Space, the company responsible for the suit. It’s ...