In designing the suits for The Martian, costume designer Janty Yates looked to NASA’s Z series suits: prototype EVA suits intended for future crewed missions.

The stuff that I really like in a space suit is the detail. In a NASA suit, ... Captain America’s Winter Soldier costume was an early, excellent harbinger of what’s coming.

NASA has not had a new space suit since 1982 when the current EVA suits were made, and there have been no new Moon suits since the Apollo program that ended in 1972.

Elon Musk’s recent SpaceX-led mission — which launched a pair of NASA astronauts into space on May 30 — featured And who better to design your new space suit than a Hollywood costume designer.

Stephen Colbert tore into NASA over its cancellation of an historic all-female spacewalk due a lack of spacesuits in the right size.

Looking more like a cool Halloween costume or a prop from an upcoming science-fiction blockbuster, the next-generation spacesuit from NASA, developed as part of a project under the agency’s Advanced ...

The two met in 2009, at a NASA competition to design a better space-suit glove, and went on to found Brooklyn-based Final Frontier Design, where they are prototyping lighter, cheaper space suits ...

Space suits in fiction are always a little sexier than those from real ... allowing for the articulated suits of armor NASA still struggles to implement. Such agile costumes may get wraparound, ...