The Ax-1 mission and his flight suit "represents the next chapter" after the space shuttle, he said. "Commercial human spaceflight was not even on anybody's radar back in the heyday of the shuttle.

When Michael Lopez-Alegria commanded the first privately funded crewed mission to visit the International Space Station, he traded his NASA "blues" for a "Deep Space" and "Mesosphere" flight suit. Two ...

But couple extreme athletes' undying drive to push sport further with the somewhat universal, primitive desire to experience something close to the freedom of unassisted human flight, and we ...

While flying in spacecrafts, astronauts wear special flight suits. Most people are familiar with NASA's bright blue or the SpaceX ... These are a million people who probably didn't care much about ...

Austrian wingsuit pilot Peter Salzmann has just etched his name in the annals of human flight, achieving a record-breaking flight that could redefine the limits of aerial adventure. On Thursday ...

Jumping from a mountain ledge in Switzerland, wingsuit pilot Peter Salzmann pushed the limits of human flight, soaring farther than ever before with a groundbreaking wingsuit foil. Austrian ...

It helped the Austrian smash records for unpowered human flight. A wingsuit is a one-piece garment of ripstop nylon, shaped almost like a rectangular sleeping bag, with three wings—two between ...

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