Tennessee native Butch Wilmore is back on earth after nine months and one of his NASA space suits is going on display at the Tennessee State Museum in Nashville.

The helmet also incorporates a special display screen (heads-up display ... dangerous lunar dust for astronauts wearing the A7L space suit for the Apollo missions. Subsequent iterations saw ...

Space Day Texas will be held on March 25 at the Texas Capitol, featuring exhibits from NASA and various aerospace companies. The event will include live space suit demos, a proclamation ...

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 ...

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 ...

The suits had been built to resist the extreme conditions of space travel "for a short period ... Inside, some 150 stuffed spacesuits (another 70 are on display at various museums) lay on ...