Adventurers and scientists. Aviators and engineers. Dreamers and doers. Becoming an astronaut requires a rare combination of intellectual capacity and physical skill — plus a heaping helping of ...

The LUNA facility at the European Astronaut Center near Cologne has 900 tons of ground-up volcanic rock like that on the moon spread over a surface a bit bigger than a basketball court.

China is planning to put people on the Moon around 2030 and is showing off the new space suits they'll be wearing. At a media event, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) had two astronauts put the ...

Prada and Axiom Space Aim for the Moon With New Astronaut Suit By Elisa Anzolin MILAN (Reuters) -Italian luxury group Prada and Houston-based startup Axiom Space unveiled on Wednesday the design ...

Astronauts walking on the moon as part of Nasa’s first human mission to the lunar South Pole will be wearing Prada, as part of a new venture unveiled on Wednesday. Private space company Axiom ...

China has taken a step forward in its ambitious plan to land astronauts on the moon by 2030 – unveiling the specially designed spacesuit its crew will don for what’s expected to be a landmark ...

The new white spacesuit is engineered to allow astronauts to “withstand extreme temperatures” in shadowed regions of the moon “for at least two hours” Kimberlee Speakman is a digital ...

Japan’s space agency has selected two new candidate astronauts to join its ranks who could even become the first Japanese to set foot on the moon. The science and technology minister announced ...

European astronauts trained for future moon missions on Wednesday in a lunar simulator in Germany. The European Space Agency (ESA) has negotiated for three spots on future moon missions under the ...

RR Auction house is offering the GMT-Master ‘Pepsi’ model watch which belonged originally to the late astronaut Edgar Mitchell – the sixth man to walk on the Moon. The watch gets the name ...

Donning heavy spacesuits and visors to protect them from sunlight, astronauts Astronauts Thomas Pesquet of France and Matthias Maurer of Germany, accompanied by their trusty canine robot, move ...