Prada's out-of-this-world spacesuit for NASA
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Kurt “CyberGuy" Knutsson discusses how Axiom Space and luxury designer Prada are collaborating on NASA's Artemis III spacesuit design.
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NASA has been using the same extravehicular activity suits since 1982, and there have been no new designs for lunar missions since the Apollo program ended in 1972. To address this gap, NASA awarded Axiom Space a contract worth $228 million in 2022 to develop a modern version of the Apollo suit, leading to the creation of the Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AxEMU) suit.