NASA is set to unveil a new spacesuit for the Artemis III lunar landing mission. Here’s a look at the design.
— the first lunar landing of the NASA program returning astronauts to the moon. The suit is being officially unveiled at an event in Houston on Wednesday.
"This suit will be much easier to walk in or to do a lot of the same tasks that they did back in Apollo, and more, but to do it in a little bit easier way," Ralston said. "It's going to give us a really great indication of how mobile the suit is and what kind of fatigue, if anything, the crewmembers are going to feel after working for six or seven hours," said Lara Kearney, who oversees the program at NASA and ensures that Axiom is meeting requirements.
"Going into a permanently shaded region on the moon is something that's never been done before, by anything," Ralston said.NASA outsourced the project to Axiom after 15 years of developing its own next-generation moon suit. The company adapted over half of NASA's original design.
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