Before their missions, NASA’s astronauts will have their suits custom fit to their bodies, with scans of all their movements to ensure that the suit matches them perfectly. Because of its ...

Aerospace giant Boeing also has a contract with Nasa to carry astronauts to the space station in its CST-100 Starliner spacecraft. It has developed a pressure suit to protect astronauts during the ...

The suit is far more elaborate than the long-ago Mercury model and far more expensive, the product of a $228-million contract NASA issued to Axiom in 2022. But there is good reason for the bump in ...