NASA still plans to conduct plenty of tests involving the suit, including parabolic flight, which can simulate the partial gravity of the Moon’s surface. The agency has already put the suit through its paces underwater at NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Lab.

NASA’s astronauts are preparing to walk on the Moon again—this time in a suit built for a new era. The space agency has begun testing a new type of spacesuit designed by Axiom Space, signaling a pivotal step in training for the Artemis lunar missions.

The European Space Agency (ESA) announced it tested last year a space suit design made in Norway, the group's first real effort at designing such a thing.

HOUSTON—Axiom Space and KBR have reached a milestone in the commercial development of Axiom’s Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AxEMU) spacesuit for NASA’s Artemis lunar mission astronauts. The AxEMU pressure garment has successfully completed its first ...

Time to suit up!

A NASA authorization bill the House Science Committee is scheduled to take up this week would require closer scrutiny of lunar lander and spacesuit work.

NASA will launch two crewed missions in early February, sending astronauts to the ISS to prepare for Mars missions and another crew to orbit the moon.