SpaceX has just unveiled a major update to its space suit design, marking another step forward in next-generation space travel. With upcoming missions to the Moon and Mars, developing an advanced, ...

The first, Axiom Space, makes sense ... This mechanism allows the astronaut to dock the suit directly to a Mars habitat or ...

The final painting (above) satisfied Sagan, his years of study evident in the details: The creature’s spindly limbs suit Mars’s low gravity; its glass-like shield blocks ultraviolet radiation.

This shielding technology isn’t just new — it’s been tested and proven. Vollebak’s Shielding Suit uses the same electromagnetic shielding techniques that NASA used for its Mars Rover.

suits, or habitats to provide versatile radiation shielding. Though the radiation problem is far from solved, hydrogels could become a game-changing feature on future missions to Mars and beyond ...