These systems make sure astronauts can work inside the spacecraft without carrying extra oxygen tanks. However, when astronauts go on spacewalks outside the spacecraft, they need special space suits.

Astronauts depend on oxygen tanks while in space, with backup systems in place to prevent emergencies. In the event of an oxygen supply failure, emerg ...

The short autonomous mission, powered, like most rocket launches, by liquid oxygen and hydrogen, passed the Kármán line, the ...

NASA's Apollo 13 mission, where disaster struck and an oxygen tank exploded, we take a look at some of the most harrowing space-related accidents ...