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 ...

Astronaut López-Alegría visited KSCVC on Thursday to reveal his donated flight suit and talk private space missions.

The flight suit is another way guests can Discover Something Real at the visitor complex, which is dedicated to sharing the ...

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.

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

When heading into space or coming home, NASA astronauts wear a bright orange suit similar in color to the safety vests Air Force pilots wear, and it's for similar reasons because that loud orange ...

Private-citizen astronauts traveling with SpaceX ... Scott Poteet, a retired Air Force pilot, and Anna Menon, a ...

This could be crucial in future missions to the moon, where gravity is only a sixth of that on Earth and astronauts may struggle to clamber up again after a fall due to their unwieldy space suits.

Even the toughest, smartest astronaut looks silly getting dressed for space. But a new suit design will make the process near-instantaneous. NASA’s New Space Suit Is Life-Saving, Slimming A ...

When Michael Lopez-Alegria commanded the first privately funded crewed mission to visit the International Space Station, he traded his NASA "blues" for a "Deep Space" and "Mesosphere" flight suit ...