Today’s high-tech spacesuit materials are a far cry from the cotton and rubber used by early high-altitude pilots. This story appears in the July 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine.

When NASA sent Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the Moon, it put the best of American science and engineering to the test. As part of the Apollo program, experts from Boeing, North American Rockwell ...

because fundamentally it's a pressure suit that has to survive in a vacuum." But Musk said he wanted to design a spacesuit to inspire kids to become astronauts and don the uniform themselves ...

But thanks to Japanese astronaut [Soichi Noguchi], Mission ... that would presumably be used to inflate the suit should the cabin lose pressure while in flight.

The spacesuit also shields the astronaut from deadly hazards ... returns from microgravity to Earth's gravity. The partial-pressure suit and equipment will support a crewmember for a 24-hour ...

Whether helping astronauts enter Earth orbit ... The first space suits were modified U.S. Navy jet-aircraft pressure suits. Neoprene-coated nylon lined the inside; aluminized nylon covered ...

A built-in camera and sensors monitor the astronaut's status, including suit pressure, temperature, humidity levels, and time in space. While astronauts in older suits would have access to this ...