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The devil may wear Prada, but NASA is taking it to the moon, and possibly Mars. Axiom Space revealed the first flight design of the Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AxEMU) spacesuit, which will be worn by astronauts aboard NASA’s Artemis III mission, at the International Astronautical Congress in Milan, Italy, this...
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As NASA and other space agencies move closer toward humans traveling to, and inhabiting the Moon and Mars, researchers are looking at how astronauts and future space dwellers can be more comfortable during longer stints in space. With that in mind, a group of researchers developed a prototype urine collection and...
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Just as NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson was about to exit the International Space Station to perform a spacewalk, she reported to ground control that her spacesuit had sprung a leak. The two astronauts were scheduled to remove a faulty electronics box from a communications antenna on the starboard truss of the space...
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Collins Aerospace is putting NASA’s latest space station suit to the test in a weightless environment on Earth. The test marked what NASA called “an important step” toward developing a suit that can be used for continuing operations and advancing scientific discovery in low Earth orbit (LEO).
NASA awarded Collins...
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Axiom Space has partnered with an Italian luxury fashion house to design NASA's lunar spacesuits for the Artemis III mission, and the devil is in the details. Axiom Space announced yesterday that it has partnered with none other than Prada to design the lunar spacesuits.
Artemis III is planned for 2025 and will...
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NASA's Artemis III mission will put humans back on the surface of the Moon for the first time in over 50 years, thanks in part to the advanced spacesuits the astronauts will wear as they step back onto the lunar surface. Axiom Space revealed the new spacesuits for the first time earlier this week.
The new...
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NASA will be revealing its next generation spacesuits for the upcoming Artemis missions and for spacewalks from the International Space Station (ISS) later today, June 1, 2022. You can watch the reveal here on HotHardware via the YouTube embed below.
The space agency is preparing to launch the first uncrewed Orion...
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