The first spacewalk was conducted in 1965, by Russian cosmonaut Alexey Leonov. Nearly 20 years later, cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space during a solo outing in 1984 ...

This morning, NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers stepped outside the International Space Station inside their Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) suits ... EMU's modular parts are ...

"Now we can really push the envelope on next-generation suit designs and have confidence we understand the risks. We're one step closer to landing astronauts back on the moon." Through Artemis ...

The new white spacesuit is engineered to allow astronauts to “withstand extreme temperatures” in shadowed regions of the moon “for at least two hours” Kimberlee Speakman is a digital ...

Spacewalks are one of the riskiest parts of space travel ... SpaceX hopes its new suits can be used one day by astronauts traveling to the Moon and Mars.

NASA officials called off the spacewalk because of a water leak in the cooling unit of one of the astronauts’ spacesuits. The leak, which affected the suit donned by NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson ...