Extravehicular activity

Photo: NASAEach of the three Skylab missions set new space duration records, with the Skylab 2 mission lasting for 28 days, Skylab 3for 59 days, and the third and final mission, Skylab 4, lasting for 84 days—a record that stood for 20…

Cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin during a spacewalk on May 3, 2023.Image: NASATwo cosmonauts are about to go on a second spacewalk in a little over a week to configure a radiator on the International Space Station (ISS)…

The Nauka science module and Soyuz MS-23 crew ship pictured above north Africa.Photo: NASARussian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin are about to step outside the International Space Station (ISS) for the pair’s second…

Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Sultan Alneyadi inside the Kibo laboratory module during his first week aboard the International Space Station.Photo: NASATwo astronauts are gearing up for a nearly seven-hour-long spacewalk outside the…

Photo: Axiom SpaceThe most noticeable thing about the Moon suit shown yesterday was its dark gray color highlighted by streaks of orange and blue. The suit that astronauts will wear during space missions won’t have this fabric colorand…

Dubbed AxEMU, the next generation suit is designed to be safe, flexible, and capable of withstanding the extreme temperatures experienced at the lunar south pole, where two NASA astronauts are expected to land later this decade.The first…

Conceptual images of the Artemis 3 moonwalk. Could this be what the new Moon suits look like? We’ll find out next week. Image: NASAIt’s been more than 50 years since astronauts first left their dusty footprints on the lunar surface, but…

NASA Astronaut Frank Rubio during a spacewalk outside the ISS on November 15.Photo: NASAAstronauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) are overdue for some new threads, but NASA is hoping to upgrade its spacesuits soon. The…

Cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin performing a spacewalk in their Orlan spacesuits on November 17, 2022.Photo: NASARoscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin were unable to perform a scheduled maintenance task…

NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough (left) and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet (right) during a spacewalk on June 16, 2021 to install new solar arrays.Image: NASAAfter a nearly 8-month hold on extravehicular activities outside the International…