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 ...

Smith originally planned to live-test his suit back in August 2014, when he was partnering with an amateur space firm called Copenhagen Suborbitals. He planned to fly in their high-altitude ...

NASA’s two stuck astronauts are just a few weeks away from finally returning to Earth after nine months in space. Butch ...

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 ...

Participants in their study were asked to get back to their feet again after lying ... especially when wearing the cumbersome space suit. In particular, the responsive nature of the limbs was ...