The Mercury suits were not designed to operate in the vacuum of space, but rather to help the ... Unlike mission patches for other flights, the Apollo 11 patch did not have the names of the ...

For 50 years the spacesuit used by American astronauts hasn't changed drastically from the ones used by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on Apollo 11 ... running out of space suits, as was ...

While the Apollo ... ground," NASA stated. "If contact with the ground were lost, the CM system had autonomous return capability." Unlike the space shuttle's spacesuit, each Apollo suit was ...

The Apollo 11 crew ... in this July 1969 NASA image. Aldrin and astronaut Neil Armstrong were the first humans to land and walk on the moon on July 20, 1969. Breaking space news, the latest ...

As the astronauts of the Apollo 11 mission prepared to board their ... Two years into ILC's tenure as NASA's space suit provider, three astronauts died in a fire during a training exercise for ...

“With the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing approaching, reports have resurfaced that NASA lost some precious video footage of that first moonwalk,” the space agency ...

By Sarah Scoles When the astronauts of Apollo 11 went to the moon ... To manage the possibility, NASA planned to quarantine the people, instruments, samples and space vehicles that had come ...

Fifty-five years ago Saturday, humanity made its first visit to the lunar surface with Apollo 11 ... reconfigured for NASA's Artemis return-to-the-moon program and its Space Launch System ...