It's also entertaining a much more stylish possibility: ditching the polos and cargo shorts for custom-designed uniforms fit for the astronauts of the future. To investigate, NASA has joined ...

The spacesuits of the future might be totally alien-looking. Instead of the bulky-looking spacesuits that astronauts wear today, a group of MIT researchers want to "shrink-wrap" the spaceflyers of ...

This included doctors, astronaut trainers ... and a further floor of communal spaces specifically designed for future customers. As a result of the completion of the interior work, the company ...

And on top of that, future astronauts will need more oomph for more—and more difficult—extravehicular physical activity than today’s explorers do, to stay alive and functional on another world.