As NASA gears up to send four astronauts on a crewed flight around the moon in the imminent Artemis II mission, Axiom Space is carefully preparing its AxEMU spacesuit for the highly anticipated endeavor that will follow.

A NASA authorization bill the House Science Committee is scheduled to take up this week would require closer scrutiny of lunar lander and spacesuit work.

The European Space Agency (ESA) announced it tested last year a space suit design made in Norway, the group's first real effort at designing such a thing.

Artemis II astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen are set to fly deeper into space than any other human

Former NASA astronaut Kathleen Rubins told a National Academies committee recently that she believes the spacesuits designed for the agency's upcoming Artemis missions are far too heavy. She described what the Artemis crew will experience on the lunar surface as an "extreme physical event" despite the added flexibility and improvements made since the Apollo missions,

NASA will launch two crewed missions in early February, sending astronauts to the ISS to prepare for Mars missions and another crew to orbit the moon.

NASA has officially started the clock on one of the most important milestones remaining before the Artemis 2 mission.