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The Astronaut Wears Prada: Axiom Reveals the First Lunar Spacesuits Since Apollo

The next generation spacesuits will be worn by astronauts on the upcoming Artemis missions to the lunar surface.

Space & Spaceflight Passant Rabie Oct 16

Dune-Inspired Spacesuit Recycles Urine Into Clean Drinking Water

Scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine and Cornell University have designed a Dune-inspired spacesuit that recycles urine, which should help prolong spacewalks.

Space & Spaceflight Ed Cara Jul 12

Russia’s Leaky Soyuz Spacecraft Is Back on Earth

The uncrewed Soyuz MS-22 carried a spacesuit that failed during a recent spacewalk, which will now be examined by engineers on the ground.

Space & Spaceflight Passant Rabie Mar 28

This Sandbox Isn’t For Kids, It’s For Spacesuit Research

People that get to do the same thing for a living as they did when they were a child are lucky. The ones that get to do it while wearing a space suit, too? They just make me jealous. The guys in this image are testing space suits. In a sandpit. Here’s a little more…

Space & Spaceflight Attila Nagy Dec 18

Never Leave your Spaceship Without Boots, Mitts, and a Hat

All the best-dressed explorers wore glittery spacesuits more suitable to the Silver Surfer than somber NASA astronauts in the early days of the Space Age. These are the helmets, gloves, and boots for the Mercury Seven astronauts. [NASA] Contact the author at [email protected] or follow her at @MikaMcKinnon.

Tech News Mika McKinnon Oct 31

This Crazy Patchwork of Restraints Ultimately Led to Modern Pressurized Spacesuits

1962: This isn’t a demented experiment from some wacky fictional mad scientist. Instead, it’s actual serious research by NASA that led to pressurized spacesuits. Robert St. John is the lucky victim, er, “test subject” in this completely legitimate and necessary experiment on pilot restraint and closed loop breathing systems at NASA’s Ames Research Center. The…

Tech News Mika McKinnon Oct 17

Why NASA Put This Spacesuit Through a CT Scanner

Last year, Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano nearly drowned in his own fluids during a harrowing spacewalk-gone-wrong. Now, NASA has teamed with the Houston Methodist Hospital’s research institute to make sure that such a thing never happens again—using a CT scanner. If you don’t recall the crisis, here’s what happened: Parmitano’s emergency stemmed from a clogged…

Space & Spaceflight Andrew Tarantola Dec 9

The Marshmallow Moon-Suit

Allyn B. “Happ” Hazard just looks so dang happy in his space suit, that it seems a shame JPL claims no responsibility for it. NASA never developed his design, but toy manufacturer Mattel knew it was too cute for words. Hap was a Senior Development Engineer in the Missile Engineering Section at JPL, but he…

Tech News Mika McKinnon Apr 2

Would you like to jump from low Earth orbit using this awesome suit?

Fearless Felix Baumgartner’s jump was truly amazing but, at about 127,000 feet, it wasn’t from orbit—not even low Earth orbit. Maybe one day someone will beat his record with this re-entry emergency suit. Can you imagine being inside as you plunge into Earth’s atmosphere and everything turns into fire? You know how it goes: “I’m…

Sploid Jesus Diaz Mar 26

Vote on the Z-2 Spacesuit Prototype design

NASA is collecting votes on the aesthetics of the next edition of the Z-series spacesuit prototypes. With a lot of gortex and electroluminescent wire, the options come straight out of a scifi set. Alas, this is for the prototype phase, which means it is a non-flight suit that will stay firmly on Earth. The cover…

Tech News Mika McKinnon Mar 24

The Lonely Astronaut Photoshoot

If I had a space suit, I’d wear it everywhere. Commuting on the bus, out to bars, hiking in the mountains, lecturing my students. I don’t even care that it’s heavy and difficult to move around in; I’ve been uncomfortable for fashion before. Photographer Ken Hermann is on the same wavelength, with the added insight…

Tech News Mika McKinnon Mar 11

This is what we would all do if we got to wear a real NASA spacesuit

BBC’s Richard Hammond of Top Gear fame recently got to step inside a NASA’s Z1 spacesuit prototype that was pressurized to simulate what wearing the spacesuit would be like on Mars. Because Mars atmosphere is so thin, the suit needs to be pumped up inside to hold his body together. No matter to Hammond though.…

Sploid Casey Chan Nov 6

Space Suit X-Ray is Coil-Tastic

One in a series of X-Rays currently on display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s “Suited for Space” exhibit, this unusual view gives the observer a peek inside an experimental space suit designed in the late sixties. Via National Geographic: Cathleen Lewis, a historian and curator of International Space Programs at the museum,…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Aug 1

An in-depth tour of the suit astronauts use to make repairs in space

If you’ve ever watched footage of a spacewalk, you’ve seen an astronaut outfitted in an extravehicular mobility unit (EMU), the spacesuit specially designed for astronauts working outside of spacecraft orbiting Earthat 17,220 miles per hour. In a recent episode of Tested, Norm met up with Terry Dunn, Training Operations Manager at NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Lab,…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Jul 8

A Movie About the Origins of the World’s Most Famous Spacesuit

It’s been eight long years since Apollo 13. We need our historically accurate space movie fix! Thank goodness Warner Bros. is cooking up a new feature, Spacesuit, based entirely on the creation of the Apollo spacesuits. OK, we’re listening. Deadline is reporting Warner Bros. has hired Richard Cordiner to adapt Nicholas de Monchaux’s detailed book…

io9 Meredith Woerner May 28

Would Edgar Allan Poe have made a great astronaut, or the greatest astronaut?

“The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true. In space.” — Edgar Allan Poe (Except that last bit about space. That was us. But that’s what he probably meant, so just go with…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Dec 20

This intrepid spaceman has gone to some seriously strange places

Start your week with a healthy dose of otherwordly weirdness, courtesy of surrealist illustrator Tom Colbie — because nothing cures a case of the Mondays like a sword-wielding centaur in a space suit. The images featured here come from an awesome series entitled Shots From a Parallel Dimension. You’ll immediately notice the common thread running…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Jul 23

Antarctica Is Fake Mars

Sending humans to Mars is going to cost gazillion dollars and take a long, long time—but when it does happen, we want to be prepared. How? Go to Antarctica in spacesuits and pretend it’s Mars. NASA teamed up with the University of North Dakota’s Space Suit Laboratory (that’s a business card I’d love to hand…

Space & Spaceflight Sam Biddle Mar 23

A Failed Prototype: The Hamster Ball Spacesuit

Space suits are insanely cool. Except this one. This prototype hamster ball suit was designed by engineers at John Hopkins and actually presented to NASA in 1964. The engineers claimed astronauts would be more mobile with this thing on. I’m not kidding, this bubbleboy thing was real and it was called the Spherical Experiment #1…

Space & Spaceflight Casey Chan Jan 22

The Moon Spacesuit Under X-Rays

This is an X-ray of the suit that Alan Shepard wore on the Moon in February 5, 1971, during the Apollo 14 mission spacewalks on the Fra Mauro formation. Nothing in the suit is superfluous. Every single thing has a purpose: Protect astronauts from sure death. The right stuff for the guys with the Right…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz Dec 21

spacesuit

The Astronaut Wears Prada: Axiom Reveals the First Lunar Spacesuits Since Apollo

Dune-Inspired Spacesuit Recycles Urine Into Clean Drinking Water

Russia’s Leaky Soyuz Spacecraft Is Back on Earth

This Sandbox Isn’t For Kids, It’s For Spacesuit Research

Never Leave your Spaceship Without Boots, Mitts, and a Hat

This Crazy Patchwork of Restraints Ultimately Led to Modern Pressurized Spacesuits

Why NASA Put This Spacesuit Through a CT Scanner

The Marshmallow Moon-Suit

Would you like to jump from low Earth orbit using this awesome suit?

Vote on the Z-2 Spacesuit Prototype design

The Lonely Astronaut Photoshoot

This is what we would all do if we got to wear a real NASA spacesuit

Space Suit X-Ray is Coil-Tastic

An in-depth tour of the suit astronauts use to make repairs in space

A Movie About the Origins of the World’s Most Famous Spacesuit

Would Edgar Allan Poe have made a great astronaut, or the greatest astronaut?

This intrepid spaceman has gone to some seriously strange places

Antarctica Is Fake Mars

A Failed Prototype: The Hamster Ball Spacesuit

The Moon Spacesuit Under X-Rays

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