Prada just unveiled the first-ever high-fashion space suit created for NASA's 2026 mission; here's everything you need to know about it ...

AIR AND SPACE Musk's SpaceX to attempt first-ever private spacewalk with new suits, vehicle SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission will orbit as far as 870 miles from Earth, farthest since end of Apollo ...

While Demo-2 was the mission that made the suits famous, that wasn't actually its first time in space. The suit was launched on previous test missions leading up to Demo-2, including the uncrewed ...

The first-ever spacesuits, designed in the late 1950s for the United States’ inaugural man-in-space mission, were shiny silver. By the end of the next decade, they were puffy-white and paired ...

SpaceX said the new suit offers greater mobility, a state-of-the-art helmet Heads-Up Display (HUD) and camera, new thermal management textiles, and materials borrowed from the Falcon 9 rocket’s ...

The space suits worn during SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission are a sci-fi reimagining of NASA ... 1965, the first-ever by a human—as much as a ”lean out and peek,” but he looked like a guy ...

The crew of the world’s first-ever all-civilian rocket ride to orbit is already training for September’s launch aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft. Shift4 Payments CEO Jared Isaacman ...

In the 1990s, several years after the first American women flew to space, budget cuts forced NASA to trim its space-suit program. Extra small was the first to go, and small followed soon after.

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 ...

— NASA’s first space suits were made for the Mercury program. ... Ever since Alan Shepard’s history-making flight in 1961, NASA astronauts have relied on space suits.

1/10 Mercury suit The first outfits ever worn into space were high-altitude pressure suits that had been repurposed for more daring missions. Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin took the first flight ...