Kopra spacesuit
NASA astronaut Tim Kopra works on a spacesuit on the International Space Station in 2016. NASA auditors warn that the agency runs the risk of running out of working spacesuits before the ISS is retired in the 2020s.

Despite spending nearly $200 million on spacesuit development over the last eight years, NASA runs the risk of not having a next-generation spacesuit ready for testing on the International Space Station before the station is retired, the agency’s auditors warned.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...