A collaboration between a space company and a fashion company yields something elegant.
he first time NASA unveiled a new spacesuit, President John Kennedy was in attendance. It was 1961, and Kennedy had traveled to Cape Canaveral for an inspection tour, where a suit technician with the pitch-perfect namewould wear during their journeys aloft aboard their tiny Mercury capsules. Kosmo appeared before Kennedy as promised, and demonstrated the ease with which he could bend and flex inside the inflatable suit.
The suit that resulted from this collaboration is, like the Apollo lunar suits of half a century ago, equal parts awkward and elegant. On Earth, the Apollo models and their accompanying backpacks., which would have made bounding about the lunar surface in them all-but impossible, if not for the moon’s one-sixth gravity which reduced the load to just 30 lbs. Today’s Artemis-era suits are, if anything, heavier still.
The quarter-billion dollar R&D cost will come down as the Artemis program plays out over future landings, and more and more astronauts wear the new suits. Unlike Apollo-era suits, each one of which was measured and cut to the particular astronaut who would be wearing it, the Axiom-Prada suits are modular, with snap-in and snap-out limbs and torsos that accommodate women and men from the 1st percentile in body size to the 99th percentile.
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