Jon Goodwin, an 80-year-old Olympian, joked about the conditions on his Virgin Galactic flight. He said he would have to wear a diaper because "one thing the rocket ship doesn't have is a toilet." ...

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly begins his first-ever spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Oct. 28, 2015. Before NASA shot astronaut Scott Kelly into orbit for the first time in 1999, he ...

Astronauts on spacewalks famously have to relieve themselves inside their spacesuits. Not only is this uncomfortable for the wearer and unhygienic, it is also wasteful, as – unlike wastewater on board ...

ESA is working on ways to make sharing unwashed underwear used in spacesuits a bit less horrible. The Austrian Space Forum (OeWF) will work with the Vienna Textile Lab on the BACTeRMA project to test ...

Many people dream about going to space, but one astronaut says that there's an aspect about space travel that isn't exactly paradise. Peggy Whitson is a NASA astronaut and a former chief astronaut on ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Here on ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - Scientists devised a new spacesuit that can turn an astronaut's urine back into potable drinking water. Here's how it works: For years, astronauts' solution to waste in space was ...

An uncomfortable reality with the spacesuits used for extravehicular activities (EVA) – commonly referred to as spacewalks – is that the astronaut spends hours in them, during which normal bodily ...

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NASA is still on the hunt for its next spacesuits, but new research brings a Dune-inspired spacewear for astronauts that can do more than protect them from harsh conditions, but also collect their ...

As NASA and other space agencies move closer toward humans traveling to, and inhabiting the Moon and Mars, researchers are looking at how astronauts and future space dwellers can be more comfortable ...