If you haven’t already noticed, all the spacesuits that NASA astronaut use when conducting extravehicular activities (such as spacewalks) are white instead of any other color. The space agencies of ...

Plain old white. That basic color has saved countless astronaut lives. NASA didn't always have white spacesuits. Their very first manned spaceflight, Project Mercury, featured silver suits ...

NASA’s astronaut class of 1978 saw not only its first women and people of color working as astronauts ... famous Mercury Seven entirely composed of white men, but they also came from very ...

including the first woman and the first person of color, to the surface of the moon in 2025. The astronauts NASA sent to the moon during the Apollo program were all white men. In recent years ...

NASA revealed a new ... that will protect the first astronauts to walk on the lunar surface since 1972 — including the first woman and the first person of color to set foot on the moon, as ...