Six aquanauts will rise from the deep today after nearly a week stationed on the ocean floor testing spacesuit concepts for future Moon and Mars missions.

A designer’s quest to build a better space suit has inspired a new line of bacterial spacewear: Second skins intended to shock, impress — and survive. Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

Space suits are some of the most complicated and unique pieces of technology in the world today. ... life support backpack, control module, ... There are still many design challenges before this suit ...

The Mk2 suit, which its founder claims will make flight "intuitive," has two mini-jet engines on each arm and a larger one on the backpack. Gravity's Space-Age Mk2 Jet Suit Is Like a VTOL on Your Arms ...

The current U.S. space suit used by NASA is a dinosaur. Designed in 1992, it was only ever intended to be used by crews aboard the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station (ISS). That may ...

Bonnie Dunbar in a custom Russian Sokol suit on the MIR space station in 1984. ... was one of 12 concepts chosen by NASA to receive $175,000 in funding this year to prove the feasibility of their ...

The students and professors at UND have built two prototype suits for deep-space missions: the NDX-1, which is meant to be used on the Martian surface, and the NDX-2, for lunar excursions.

Frontiers in Space Technology. Enhanced astronaut hygiene and mission efficiency: a novel approach to in-suit waste management and water recovery in spacewalks. Research staff member at Weill Cornell ...

It’s a concept for a different type of space garment–one made from six protective layers of lightweight fabrics. The top layer shields from radiation. Three deal with pressurization.