Photograph by BILL STAFFORD AND ROBERT MARKOWITZ, NASA But fashion is fickle, and technology grows apace. Space historian Roger Launius says the first suits were based on what jet pilots wore.

with luxury fashion designer Prada helping design space suits for the 2025 Moon mission. The Italian fashion house will work to design the suits alongside another private company, Axiom Space.

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 ...

In a recent post on social media, she said she's "launching into the new year in style" at the Johnson Space Center and ...

“Fashion was the only thing I knew and space had always been a passion so I decided to combine both my passions." Alina Hasan Mrs Chandola wearing what she describes as a personalised space suit ...

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 ...

Designed for the first woman and person of color to walk on the Moon, the suit combines advanced technology with luxury ...

They all wore a white spacesuit. And they're not alone. Beyond NASA, space programs in countries like Russia and China also use white suits. Not the colors of the Russian flag or China's iconic ...

They were wearing new spacesuits — the first time the company's suits were tested by humans in space. The astronauts wore the spacesuits for part of the 19-hour-long flight to the International ...

At the International Astronautical Congress in Milan, Italy, Axiom Space and Italian luxury fashion house Prada unveiled ... experts to develop the AxEMU suit, ensuring durability and comfort ...