If you think the space race ended with the moon landing, it's time for an update. Space travel is slowly growing from the ultra-exclusive purview of governments to the environment of the exploring ...

This first ever private spacewalk will be bringing some serious style to outer space. SpaceX's privately-funded crewed mission, Polaris Dawn, is moving toward a launch sometime this summer. The ...

Although space suits, which differ from pressure suits in subtle, but important ways, have been well covered in literature, pressure suits have gone unheralded except as introductions to the space ...

In another SpaceX milestone, billionaire Jared Isaacman and company crew trainer Sarah Gillis took turns floating just outside their Crew Dragon capsule early Thursday in the first privately-financed ...

SpaceX has shown off its rockets at all stages of development as it moves toward manned flights, but what are people going to wear on board those vessels? Now we have a pretty good idea courtesy of ...

Polaris Dawn will launch on Monday, and the private space mission will do some ambitious and risky things. In a time when we regularly see multiple commercial spacecraft docked at the ISS at the same ...

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When a sealed, pressurized vessel (say, you) is exposed to a vacuum (say, space), things tend to get splattery—hence the exo-suits. These fifteen examples of atmospheric apparel from our friends at ...

Flagsuit LLC, a new startup founded by NASA Astronaut Glove Challenge winner Peter Homer, shipped their first commercially produced space suit gloves to Los Angeles-based Orbital Outfitters last month ...

One of the toughest problems of space navigation is to dress spacemen so they can live and function outside the controlled environment of their cabins. Even for high-altitude airplane pilots, ...

Forbes writer Jim Clash en route to 70,000 feet in a U-2 spy plane, Beale AFB, August 21, 2024. It’s extremely rare for a civilian - even a journalist - to score an edge-of-space ride in the backseat ...

In another SpaceX milestone, billionaire Jared Isaacman and company crew trainer Sarah Gillis took turns floating just outside their Crew Dragon capsule early Thursday in the first privately-financed ...