European aerospace giants Leonardo, Airbus, and Thales plan to establish a space alliance named 'Project Bromo' to compete ...

NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak lifted off from Kennedy Space Center aboard space shuttle Discovery last July 4. Like all shuttle astronauts, she was wearing space diapers -- in NASA speak, ...

It's common knowledge that astronauts wear diapers. Perhaps no one brought that to the fore more than former astronaut Lisa Nowak — but that's a 900-mile story for another time.. The shuttle and ...

Space diapers. Spacewalks usually last between 5 and 8 hours, and astronauts typically don’t eat or drink too much before one. This reduces their overall ability to perform.

Two-and-a-half years ago, before she attended her first year at Cornell, Etlin started to work on the space suit. And she emailed professor Christopher Mason, who she hadn't met yet, to tell him ...

For years, astronauts on spacewalks around the ISS have relieved themselves using a disposable diaper inside their spacesuit, known as a maximum absorbency garment (MAG). These garments, first ...