Astronaut Fashion Is Changing. This Is Not Your Grandpa’s Spacesuit

For the first time in decades, NASA is planning to send astronauts back to the moon. Their spacesuits will be very different from what Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin wore when they walked the lunar surface in 1969. Spacesuits today are thinner and lighter, while still making sure astronauts can complete tasks and stay alive. In this conversation from the Future of Everything festival in May, WSJ’s Danny Lewis speaks to Amy Ross, one of NASA’s top spacesuit engineers. She explains how the lessons learned from designing next-generation moon suits will eventually help astronauts explore Mars, while leading to other innovations here on Earth.

Further reading:

NASA, Canadian Space Agency Select Astronauts for Artemis Moon Mission 

NASA's New Artemis Spacesuits Are Designed to Put a Woman on the Moon 

NASA Plans to Bring Bits of Mars to Earth. It May Change How We See Space 

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