After recent frustrations with postponed spacewalks, a key partner for developing new ISS spacesuits for NASA has pulled out, adding insult to injury.
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is in desperate need of new spacesuits for its astronauts, but in a troubling development, the company contracted to design the suits has just pulled out of the agreement. The two astronauts, Dyson and Mike Barratt, hadn’t yet left the airlock when the issue arose. However, the airlock had to be re-pressurized as the pair were on their way out to the vacuum of space. Thankfully, the astronauts were safe.
suspended spacewalks outside the ISS following a series of potentially life-threatening incidents of water leaking into astronauts’ helmets during their spacewalks. astronaut who serves on is working with its commercial partners to develop new spacesuits for its astronauts on the ISS, but it’s taking longer than anticipated. In June 2022, the space agency awarded contracts to Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace to build spacesuits worth a potential combined value of $3.5 billion. The suits were meant to debut in 2025, but Collins Aerospace is looking to drop out of the contract, SpaceNews reported on Wednesday.
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