Conservator Lisa Young works on Armstrong’s suit in the Conservation Lab at the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in December 2013. Dane Penland / NASM Neil Armstrong ...

The clothing in question: the spacesuit Neil Armstrong wore when he stepped on the moon 50 years ago next July. <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> On Earth, the suit—complete with its ...

Yet in some ways they’ve hardly changed. Now as then, a space suit is essentially a gas-filled, human-shaped covering. (Exceptions include the form-fitting suits Dava Newman is developing at MIT ...

the Smithsonian celebrates by releasing the results of a multi-year conservation effort of Neil Armstrong’s spacesuit. The effort to protect and display Armstrong’s suit also included sharing it with ...

The Kickstarter campaign to “Reboot the Suit” attracted nearly 9,500 backers and almost $720,000 to pay for… Read More The spacesuits hanging in the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space ...