Wearing these suits, the four astronauts on this mission will make significant strides in getting people back on the moon within the next two years. A 250,000 miles mission, it's further than ...

Astronauts don’t just wear orange for style. The real reason why is linked to survival, emergency landings, and why seconds matter in space.

The custom suits are equipped with survival gear in case the crew has to exit the spacecraft after splashdown — and are ...

Following the retirement of the space shuttle, and prior to the advent of the Space Launch System, NASA’s access to low Earth ...

The orange suits, which function as mini life-support systems (astronauts can live in them for 144 hours, if necessary), were custom-made to each astronaut’s physique by NASA engineers.