Today’s high-tech spacesuit materials are a far cry from the cotton and rubber used by early high ... issue of National Geographic magazine. Space suits—designed to provide oxygen and ...

Chief among those tasks was designing the first space suit that could sustain life on ... ILC had engineers who understood a thing or two about rubber garments. They invented a bellowslike joint ...

back to the top- Spacesuits for the space shuttle era are pressurized at 4.3 pounds per square inch (psi), but because the gas in the suit is 100 percent oxygen instead of 20 percent, the person ...

space suits must serve several vital functions: provide oxygen, control temperature, permit movement, power communications, and protect against solar radiation. The Z-2 is the newest prototype ...