Kathryn Sullivan said spacesuits for a women were a problem in the 1980s. For the first time in U.S. history, an all-woman team of astronauts — Anne McClain and Christina Koch — were scheduled to step ...

The sheer bulk of contemporary spacesuits ensures that there’s virtually no way to scratch an itch once the suit is worn. Astronauts have borne these hefty pressurized suits of armor for generations ...

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly begins his first-ever spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Oct. 28, 2015. Before NASA shot astronaut Scott Kelly into orbit for the first time in 1999, he ...

Nancy-Lee Rodden was given an unexpected task after she got an accounting degree in college and started working. “One of my first jobs was to figure out how much it cost to build a space suit,” said ...