Spacesuits for the Moon Discussion

[Grendal]

Spacesuit for NASA’s Artemis III Moon Surface Mission Debuts

Spacesuit for NASA’s Artemis III Moon Surface Mission Debuts

www.nasa.gov

 

[Cosmacelf]

Looks awesome. The real suits will be white however.

 

[petit_bateau]

Have they managed to come up with a design that - in principle - can also work for Mars and for EVAs ?

 

[ecarfan]

Have they managed to come up with a design that - in principle - can also work for Mars and for EVAs ?

Front the NASA article:

Following Artemis III, the agency will compete future Artemis mission services under the Exploration Extravehicular Activity Services (xEVAS) contract. NASA is using the contract to meet the agency’s spacewalking needs for both the Moon and the International Space Station. The agency recently awarded a task order to Collins Aerospace, who is also competing within the xEVAS contract, to develop new spacesuits for astronauts to wear during spacewalks on the space station. Both vendors will compete for future spacewalking and moonwalking services task orders.

The suit looks very sleek, and the backpack appears significantly smaller than the Apollo suit design even though the new suit is rated for a third longer EVA duration time than the Apollo suit.