spacesuits
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NASA Selects Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace to Develop Next-Generation Spacesuits
NASA announced today that it has partnered with two private U.S. companies, Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace, to develop its next spacesuits, which will be ready no earlier than 2025.
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This Spacesuit’s ‘Take Me Home’ Button Could Rescue Astronauts Adrift In Space
Imagine the frightening scenario – dramatised in movies such as Gravity and 2001 – where an astronaut gets sick or disoriented during a spacewalk. Confused, and on the cusp of losing consciousness, she struggles to operate the suit’s jetpack. Unable to get her bearings, and without a tether to keep her secured to the space…
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This Is How NASA Tests Spacesuits Ahead Of Missions
These NASA employees may be lying down, but the experience isn’t perhaps as relaxing as it looks. This is how the space agency goes about testing spacesuits ahead of launch.
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MIT’s New BioSuit Shrinkwraps Astronauts To Hold Them Together
Our current spacesuits are awesome pieces of technology, but they certainly have their limitations. This is why MIT scientists (and NASA itself) have been working on a next generation spacesuit. And their latest innovation is super futuristic.