As Ax-1 commander and Axiom Space's chief astronaut, Lopez-Alegria gave his input into the design of the flight suits, but most of the credit goes to Italian outfitter Loro Piana. Working with a ...
Axiom Mission-1 (Ax-1) commander Michael Lopez-Alegria poses with the flight suit he wore on the first all-private astronaut mission to the International Space Station as it is now on display at ...
Astronaut Michael López-Alegría unveiled a new exhibit at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex this week that celebrates private spaceflight, noting that his experience with Axiom Space turned ...
Lopez-Alegria, who was a NASA astronaut from 1992 to 2012, logged more than 257 days on his first four missions. He is the first person to command both civil and commercial orbital spaceflights, as ...
Today’s high-tech spacesuit materials are a far cry from the cotton and rubber used by early high-altitude pilots. This story appears in the July 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine.
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