Ryan Scirocco is the spacesuit business development lead at Collins Aerospace. Collins, an RTX business, is, along with its partners ILC Dover and Oceaneering, developing a new generation of spacesuits for NASA. Ryan discusses everything that goes into keeping people alive in a freezing zero-gravity vacuum far outside the biosphere.

Topics include:

• A spacesuit is a mini-spaceship
• Space: it wants to kill you
• Spacesuit history
• What’s new? No more mirrors!
• Testing spacesuits on the vomit comet
• The ISS, the Moon, and beyond

Links:

Collins Aerospace Completes Key Spacesuit Testing Milestone

Space Symposium

Tech Policy Podcast #349: The State of Space Exploration