Now, researchers want to build something similar for astronauts. Going out for a spacewalk is not easy. ... Real-life ‘Dune’ suit could help astronauts conserve water. Story by Mihai Andrei ...

More information: Enhanced astronaut hygiene and mission efficiency: a novel approach to in-suit waste management and water recovery in spacewalks, Frontiers in Space Technologies (2024). DOI: 10. ...

Researchers from Florida Polytechnic University are developing a "happy suit" that they say will protect astronauts from the psychologically harrowing effects of space travel.

Like a scene from Gravity, an astronaut is pictured drifting alone in deepest darkest space. This paralysing photograph, with its echoes of the hit George Clooney and Sandra Bullock film, has ...

And for the first time, these space suits will be made to fit both male and female astronauts, which is something Peggy Whitson, a former NASA astronaut who completed 10 spacewalks and holds the ...