• more about #spacesuits
    Klebert L. Hall: These are nice! Too bad we probably won't ever need them. -Kle. more »
    kylenalepa: Auto-fitting spacesuits? So, we're basically talking plug-suits from Evangelion, right? more »
    LittleDragon: What ever happened to that skin tight suit they were working on? I think it was at MIT. more »
    rachaeljean: I am probably misunderstanding the concept, but it reminds me of Back To The Future when Michael J. Fox puts on the super giant jacket which then auto... more »
    Belabras: The interesting thing to me was learning that the bulk of EVA mission time was spent by astronauts wrestling with their bulky suits. This new suit wo... more »
    AngryEddy: I cannot believe how brave those astronauts were. Imagine putting on one of those iffy-looking suits and hoping they didn't fail when you had to walk... more »
    Jes St.Lawrence: I'm too sexy for asbestos, too sexy for asbestos, Connections & Cosmos. more »
    LittleDragon: Where are the sexy skin tight suits MIT was working on? more »
    Belabras: Very, very cool. more »
    Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: Growing up in DC, countless field trips were spent going to see the various Smithsonian Museums and the Air and Space never, ever, got boring or repet... more »
    Andrew Liptak: Those are some fantastic pictures! more »
    Aethelred: Back when Air&Space was ina Quonset beside the Castle, they would let you sit in a [never launched] Mercury capsule and push the "fire retro rockets"... more »
    MahaliaLibnut: what's the pic of the indonesian PD investigating a hotel bombing have to do with this? more »
  • #spacesuitporn

    One Size Will Fit All With New Shrinking Spacesuit

    No longer will astronauts have to spend hours making sure their spacesuits fit properly for missions. Engineers are working on a suit that'll use pneumatic muscles to seal the suits shut automatically... as well as all manner of other value-adds. More »
  • #apollomission

    The Suits That Carried Our Heroes To The Moon

    Check out this row of experimental astronaut suits — they look like something out of Tintin. With the 40th anniversary of the Moon landing coming up, the National Air and Space Museum is displaying precious Apollo mission artifacts. Gallery below. More »
  • #swimsuits

    NASA's Smart Swimsuit Gives You Superspeed

    The world's fastest swimsuit uses technology from NASA to improve athletes' times by a crucial fraction of a second. Speedo's new LZR Racer, pronounced "Laser Racer," is designed to work like a spacesuit, with the seams "ultrasonically welded" instead of sewn, to reduce drag in the water by up to 10 percent. When athletes premiered the swimsuits on the Today Show yesterday, the studio lights "cut through the translucent suits like X-rays." Click through for a swimsuit gallery. More »
  • #scifashion

    US vs. Russia on "World's Next Top Spacesuit"