An outfit truly out of this world is the brand new spacesuit revealed by haute couture brand Prada, created for NASA. While Prada is known for its heirloom fashion looks with ambassadors that ...

It was the first suit to use his patented toroidal joints, and was the most mobile suit that had been created at that time. (Most of the motions in this video would not have been possible in the ...

Axiom Mission-1 (Ax-1) commander Michael Lopez-Alegria poses with the flight suit he wore on the first all-private astronaut mission to the International Space Station as it is now on display at ...

Space historian Roger Launius says the first suits were based on what jet pilots wore. Over time they’ve evolved into autonomous modules that help astronauts negotiate the inky expanse ...

When Michael Lopez-Alegria commanded the first privately funded crewed mission to visit the International Space Station, he traded his NASA "blues" for a "Deep Space" and "Mesosphere" flight suit.

Space suits are often worn inside spacecraft as a safety precaution in case of loss of cabin pressure, and are necessary for extra-vehicular activity (EVA), work done outside spacecraft.

His first line of defence, however, was his space suit which he had to pressurise himself before making his descent. The suit had to be specially designed to allow him the freedom to manoeuvre ...

Before, only astronauts with government-funded space agencies had done ... Mr Isaacman emerged first, wiggling his limbs, hands and feet to test his suit. He returned back inside the hatch ...

as part of NASA's first human mission to the lunar South Pole. Prada has co-designed the space suit with private space company Axiom Space to provide the surface suits for NASA's Artemis III ...

Bleeding the suit beyond its safety limits to make ... White later became one of the first casualties of the space race, dying in 1967 in a launch-pad fire that consumed the Apollo 1 mission ...