When Michael Lopez-Alegria commanded the first privately funded crewed mission to visit the International Space Station, he ...

As Ax-1 commander and Axiom Space's chief astronaut, Lopez-Alegria gave his input into the design of the flight suits, but most of the credit goes to Italian outfitter Loro Piana. Working with a ...

Lopez-Alegria, who was a NASA astronaut from 1992 to 2012, logged more than 257 days on his first four missions. He is the first person to command both civil and commercial orbital spaceflights, as ...

Astronaut Michael López-Alegría unveiled a new exhibit at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex this week that celebrates private spaceflight, noting that his experience with Axiom Space turned ...

The United States' most experienced astronaut has hung up her flight suit. Peggy Whitson, who has spent 675 days in space over the course of four missions — three for NASA and one commercial ...

That basic color has saved countless astronaut lives. NASA didn't always have white spacesuits. Their very first manned spaceflight, Project Mercury, featured silver suits, but none of those ...

Today’s high-tech spacesuit materials are a far cry from the cotton and rubber used by early high-altitude pilots. This story appears in the July 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine.

But thanks to Japanese astronaut [Soichi Noguchi ... that would presumably be used to inflate the suit should the cabin lose pressure while in flight.

Mercedes Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton underwent astronaut flight training in Texas and will commemorate the experience with a special race suit in Qatar. The seven-time world champion will leave ...