The Apollo astronauts moved with a characteristic, almost awkward bounce partly due to the limitations of their suits. The AxEMU aims to change that with better joint systems, allowing astronauts ...

NASA wants to come up with a way to transform 96 sacks of feces, urine and vomit ditched by Apollo 11 astronauts in1969.

You could say that astronaut Hall-of-Famer Tom Jones had ... As you looked up, you’re looking at the top of your helmet in the Apollo suit, so you never saw the Earth. All you could see was ...

Apollo-era suits were the first equipped with a life-support system. EMU: The Extravehicular Mobility Unit has been NASA’s workhorse suit for some 30 years, allowing astronauts to function in ...

The charred and disassembled Apollo 1 spacecraft ... I can remember my hopes that the astronauts’ suits would just hold until we could get in.” Clemmons, who died in 2014, spent most of ...

Today’s high-tech spacesuit materials are a far cry from the cotton and rubber used by early high-altitude pilots. This story appears in the July 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine.

On July 20, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed in the Lunar Module Eagle ... Apollo 11 National Air and Space Museum Pressure Suit, A7-L, Armstrong, Apollo 11, Flown National Air ...

The Apollo XI mission is one of humanity's greatest achievements and artefacts from it are super valuable. Discover a NASA flight suit here.

Mitchell joined the astronaut corps in 1966. A year later, three of his colleagues were vaporized in a fire on the launch pad aboard Apollo 1 ... filed a paternity suit against Mitchell, which ...