NASA Reveals Challenges in Designing the Spacesuit of the Future

For several years space exploration it has become one of the new priorities for institutions and governments with a program designed to explore what exists beyond our planet. For this job it is important to have the right equipment and POT knows that for an astronaut there is nothing more important than him space suit.

For this reason, the agency has released a new video on their official YouTube channel. YouTube where he points out the problems faced by the developers of the new generation space suit, especially with Artemis program which aims to bring manned missions to Moon in the next few years and the first astronauts to Mars at the end of the decade 2030 or early 1990s 2040.

“The suit is, in fact, an autonomous environment. It’s a mini spaceship that wraps tightly around the human body.”mentions Don BarkerHead of Costume Architecture Department POTin sequence.

Difficulties in exploring the moon

POT explains in his video that the biggest problem is in the creation of spacesuits that were used for manned missions in Moon What they will use is to find a way to keep the suit mobile while protecting the wearer from dangers from our satellite, such as moon dust.

“When your life depends on good sealed and some fabrics which work great dust this is a big problem”points to POT.

barker indicates that this is especially important, since the dust of the moon has a different composition than the dust of the moon. Land and it can hurt fabrics suit. ” lunar regolith it looks like fine grained material when you see photos of apollo boots on it…but you will see from broken stone molds to broken glass molds “That’s what it looks like under a microscope – from such a small range of particle sizes that it penetrates everything.”said the architect.

POT explained by the fact that while astronauts 50s who participated in missions Apollo they just needed their suits to last a few moon walksthose who will participate in the crews Artemis program they will need to be able to withstand days, weeks and even months in Moon D Marswhich have a rather difficult climate and the dust that abounds on their surface can be harmful.

Possible solutions include adding special protective layer or download costumes from electricity to repel dust, although an investigation is ongoing.

Who is designing the new NASA spacesuits?

Last June POT announced that the designers of the next generation of spacesuits will Axiom Cosmos D collins spacecompanies located in Texas D California from the north respectively. The second works with seafaring as well as ILC Doverwho designed the space suit used by lunar astronauts five decades ago, as well as for spacewalks outside International Space Station (ISS) in later times.

The new suits will be used for future spacewalks. ISSbut above all for the mission Artemis IIIwho intends to put first woman Nonetheless first colored face on the lunar surface before the end of this decade. If the landing was successful, astronauts those who stay longer on purpose-built moon bases will also wear suits.

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