Narrator: But the spacesuits NASA currently uses are more than 40 years old. 18 suits were developed for the Space Shuttle program in 1974 and have vastly overworked their original 15-year-life ...

Photograph by BILL STAFFORD AND ROBERT MARKOWITZ, NASA But fashion is fickle, and technology grows apace. Space historian Roger Launius says the first suits were based on what jet pilots wore.

Russian cosmonaut Ivan Vagner welcomed the Crew-10 astronauts in a unique way to the International Space Station on March 16, 2025, and it was live streamed.

According to Stich, the Starliner suits are not compatible ... February 2025, when NASA plans their return. The situation underscores the complexities involved in space missions and the need ...

Those two astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, have unexpectedly remained at the space station since June after NASA determined ... donning their SpaceX space suits. SpaceX has also ...