and display" Neil Armstrong's suit after it was placed in storage in 2006 to minimize signs of aging. "It's really humbling," Young said. "It's really a privilege to work on the space suits." The goal ...

The spacesuit Neil Armstrong wore on the moon is iconic and continues to be the standard for crafting space garb.

The 46 years since Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon have not lessened the sense of wonder of that that moment. But the decades have deteriorated his iconic space suit, which has been locked away ...

And it's quite the first project: The museum is asking for $500,000 to conserve, digitize, and exhibit the space suit Neil Armstrong wore when he set foot on the moon 46 years ago today.

Millinery models appear like strange and delicate fossils, and then there’s the otherworldly presence of space travel featuring Apollo 15 equipment and Neil Armstrong’s spacesuit.

The real suit will go on display at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum’s Apollo 11 Moon landing exhibit in 2019, the 50th anniversary of the iconic moon walk.

Conservator Lisa Young works on Armstrong’s suit in the Conservation Lab at the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in December 2013. Dane Penland / NASM ...

Neil Armstrong's Apollo 11 spacesuit is about to go back on public display after a Smithsonian effort to preserve it. The effort wasn't to make it pristine. Lunar dust still covers the boots.

Astronaut Neil Armstrong's historically significant space suit is the latest subject of restoration at the Smithsonian. The crew hopes to not only fully restore the… ...

(CNN)- The 46 years since Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon have not lessened the sense of wonder of that that moment. But the decades have deteriorated Armstrong's iconic space suit, which for ...

50 years after the historic Apollo 11 mission that landed the first humans on the moon, the Smithsonian celebrates by releasing the results of a multi-year conservation effort of Neil Armstrong’s ...

Social media posts have called out the recent Blue Origin flight as a PR stunt for the rich. Maybe, but what about the issue of space suits?