Two astronauts aboard the five-day SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission, which launched on Tuesday (Sept. 10), are due to perform the ...

Apparently, in the first few seconds without a space suit, the gases in the human body would begin to 'expand', causing ...

The space suits worn during SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission are a sci-fi reimagining of NASA's classic marshmallow suits. There ...

The Polaris spacewalk looked a lot like the earliest NASA spacewalks during the Gemini missions in the late 1960s. Here are ...

12) The SpaceX EVA suit, designed for extravehicular activities (EVAs, or spacewalks), is based on the familiar black-and-white intravehicular activity (IVA) spacesuit, but with enhancements and ...

Picture yourself as an astronaut in the vastness of space, and suddenly — you're accidentally pushed out of your spacecraft's ...

Why? Because spacewalking tools and gear really weren’t designed for people my size. When I first started EVA training, there were four different EVA spacesuit sizes: small, medium, large, and extra- ...

Astronauts in a demo flight headed by billionaire-pilot Jared Isaacman are testing leading-edge technologies pivotal to ...

This is not a traditional spacewalk. Overnight, the Polaris Dawn Crew will rely on SpaceX suits while their spacecraft is ...

SpaceX sees the brief exercise a starting point to test spacesuit technology for future, longer missions to Mars.

Tracy C. Dyson is from Arcadia and earned a doctorate in chemistry at UC Davis in 1997. The Expedition 71 flight engineer is on the ISS as part of her third mission to space. She previously was a ...

SpaceX is gearing up for the launch of Falcon 9, which is expected to carry four Polaris Dawn mission astronauts to low-Earth ...