The custom suits were designed by New York City fashion label Monse Former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe tells PEOPLE that ...

Kranz' (real-life) Apollo 13 vest is now on display in the Smithsonian's ... The collar was also changed to one from a flight suit of the same period. As to the jacket's color, Nelson said it came ...

Space suits—designed to provide oxygen and consistent ... travels to the moon in our July cover story “50 years after Apollo 11, a new moon race is on.” ...

I can remember my hopes that the astronauts’ suits would just hold until ... practice runs for the first piloted Apollo mission, a two-week, Earth-orbit flight scheduled for late February.

From capsules to space suits to the ephemera of life aboard ... a nuisance,” lamented Michael Collins. Nine days into Apollo 11’s flight, inside a spacecraft that had become increasingly ...

This story appears in the August 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. On Earth, clothes make the man—and woman. In space, they’re the key to survival. Whether helping astronauts enter ...

[Fran] has been researching the Saturn V Launch Vehicle Digital Computer – the computer that flew all the Apollo flights into ... After [Fran] took a flight-ready LVDC spare to the dentist ...

"No, we went to space in the suit. It's fashion ... meaningful item with her to space. "In my flight bag was the personal American flag from Apollo 12 astronaut Pete Conrad.