In 1961, as NASA prepared to send its first American into space, everyone was thinking about science and other major stuff. Nobody, it seems, was thinking about urination.

Weeks later, on May 5, Alan Shepard will become the first American in space ... for permission to pee in his suit. As Shepard himself wrote in his book about the space race, medical sensors ...

From full-body Soviet space suits to a control panel once used on ... that built the rover auctioned it off at Sotheby’s to the American collector Richard Garriott, son of a NASA astronaut ...

the sleek-looking suit is the product of a multi-year partnership between the Italian fashion brand and American space infrastructure company Axiom. The final result: a technology-laced hunk with ...

"No, we went to space in the suit. It's fashion ... "In my flight bag was the personal American flag from Apollo 12 astronaut Pete Conrad. [The] third man to walk on the moon," she shared.

Since 2007 the space agency has spent an estimated $420 million on new suit designs without actually ... Inspired by the ceremonial unfurling of American Stars and Stripes by each set of Apollo ...

Thus, although the International Space Station is kept at Earth pressure, both American and Russian space suits only have around one third of that. So, why don’t astronauts get bendy ...

Bulky suits of Apollo gave way to sleek, slick flight suits of space shuttles and SpaceX From the days of the first humans in space, Yuri Gagarin and John Glenn, spacesuits have undergone dramatic ...

As barber to America’s earliest astronauts, he developed his most lasting friendship with Alan Shepard, the Navy test pilot who became the first American ... by the bulky space suit and unable ...