June 2018
Striding through space
... been reproduced on everything from books and advertisements to ice cream wrappers and album covers NASA’s new spacesuit represented an advance on the designs used earlier for moonwalks and spacewalks. As well as providing consumables for the...
April 2020
Protecting against the dangers of space radiation
...now paid to the composition and protection offered by spacesuits. Individual susceptibility is not only important for astronauts ... astronauts will have to do many more so new spacesuits will need to be resilient and resistant to abrasion of ...
April 2025
Racing to the Moon
...one. In February 2025 China unveiled the official names for a spacesuit and lunar rover to be used in its mission to land astronauts on the... Moon by 2030. The spacesuit, which has been named Wangyu, meaning ‘gazing into the ...
10 November 2021
NASA moves human lunar landing mission to 2025
... other hand depends on the completion of many different, interdependent projects including docking of Orion with HLS, updated spacesuits, and potentially the development of The Gateway, which if constructed, will be another port Orion can dock with...
10 January 2024
NASA announces delays to astronaut lunar missions
...human landing system and Axiom Space for the next-generation spacesuits - additional time for testing and any refinements ahead ..., along with the human landing system, next-generation spacesuits, Gateway lunar space station, and future rovers are NASA...
18 October 2019
First all-female spacewalk is underway!
... ISS to fit both women. Since then, the agency has addressed the issue by sending up a second medium spacesuit in October. “I think it’s important because of the historical nature of what we’re doing,” Koch said ahead of her spacewalk. “In the...
