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.

providing astronauts with an increased level of comfort while improving the materials' performance," the press release said.

Then, in 1977, NASA made the five-year-old a custom-made, $50,000 spacesuit. The Mobile Biological Isolation System, which came with a 54-page user's manual, would allow Vetter to leave his ...

The pair claims the new spacesuit's design improves on flexibility ... team worked alongside Axiom Space engineers on customized material recommendations and features that would both protect ...