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 ...

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.

and ease of assembly by astronauts whose space suits restricted their range of movement and ability to grasp items," Platoff explains. Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin later recounted in an ...

The suits also had to be robust enough to survive on the Moon’s surface and flexible enough so that astronauts could still walk around with ease, reports Fast Company. That’s where Playtex ...