spacesuits

Astronauts have snuck alcohol into space in hollowed-out books and pouches in their spacesuits

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Drinking alcohol is prohibited in space but that hasn’t stopped some intrepid crew members from smuggling hooch into orbit. Cosmonauts have admitted they’ve smuggled bottles of cognac in their space suits, in intentionally mislabeled ‘juice’ bottles and even inside hollowed-out books. One cosmonaut hid a bottle in the wristband of a device used for measuring … Read more

NASA starts testing new Artemis spacesuits and asks ‘what would you pack for the Moon’?

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NASA is testing the spacesuits that will be worm by the first woman and next man to step on the Moon and have asked the public ‘what would you pack for the Moon’? The Artemis spacesuits are being tested underwater by NASA astronauts at the Johnson Space Centre in Houston including planting a flag and … Read more

NASA astronauts suit up in sleek white spacesuits for the second attempt at launching on Falcon 9

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NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley have arrived at the Kennedy Space Center for a second attempt at making history. The team has had breakfast, talked with friends and family and are now suiting up in the new sleek white spacesuits that SpaceX CEO Elon Musk had personally worked on for four years. The … Read more