Real space suits of the sort used to work outside the ISS or for walking on the Moon are a very different affair. They’re more like miniature spaceships with arms and legs.

Real space suits are designed to work in zero gravity, meaning they’re too expensive and too heavy to use at the NASA-funded Mars simulation mission in Hawaii.

Costume designers built on that foundation of real space suits and incorporated inspiration from other science fiction classics like Star Wars and The Black Hole, ...

Unsurprisingly, science fiction writers, movie directors, and prop-makers also love space suits — you’ll find them everywhere from Robert A. Heinlein’s novel Have Space Suit — Will Travel ...

Kurt's key takeaways. It’s clear that the EVA suit is more than just a new set of threads for the stars. With the Polaris Dawn mission on the horizon, we’re not just preparing to watch ...

U-2 flier wearing a pressurized space suit. Courtesy of U.S. Air Force When I flew last summer in a U-2 spy plane to above 70,000 feet, I was required to wear a bulky, claustrophobic suit ...

These days, Gilman spends more of his time designing real space suits. Sometimes, he says, he enjoys that more. But whether he's working on a project for the real world or fantasy — NASA or ...

SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk. Musk posted an image on Instagram of the new SpaceX space suit, and it's downright svelte compared to the bulky pressure suits astronauts typically wear for an EVA.

Apr. 19—Riley Nuttycombe, a senior at Boulder's New Vista High School, applied on a whim for an opportunity to experience what it might be like to live on Mars through a NASA-sponsored program ...

You can now head down to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, get into a real space suit, get pressurized, perform some basic astronaut tasks and even try out a flight simulator under air pressure, all while ...

Importantly, this is not a mockup of what a real space suit would look like. It's the real thing. SpaceX has tested the suit at two times vacuum pressure without any issue.