#Spacesuit technology has changed very little in 50 years. Astronauts still spacewalk in rigid, air-filled suits that make movement difficult - and which are often built to fit male astronauts’ physiques. Research on a new design has been ongoing for two decades. The skintight ‘BioSuit’, developed by Apollo Program Professor of Astronautics Dava Newman and her team at @MITnews, aims to give #astronauts the flexibility of ‘an Olympic athlete’, while still protecting them from low pressure, extrem

On November 14, 1969, the Apollo 12 mission launched to the moon. Space History Archives👉 https://space-com.visitlink.me/mTso8R This was the second moon landing of the Apollo program. The two astronauts on board were Pete Conrad and Alan Bean. Richard Gordon stayed in the command module and orbited the moon while his crewmates went to the surface. The astronauts made a pinpoint landing in a lunar mare called the Ocean of Storms. The previous moon mission, Apollo 11, drifted far from the planned