Pictures of the new #Artemis #moon #spacesuits have dropped -- and they are RAD!

I was a little sad to read that the final version will likely be all-white, but that will help make the suit safer and more comfortable for the #astronauts

Also below, for comparison, the 1969 spacesuit (in action)!

#space #Astronomy #Astrodon #NASA

📷 & more on new suits: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/spacesuit-for-nasa-s-artemis-iii-moon-surface-mission-debuts
📷 of Aldrin on the moon: https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/AS11-40-5903HR.jpg

Reinhold Ewald https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhold_Ewald
"the three #cosmonauts would have had a good chance of returning in the broken #Soyuz. Like me, #ChrisHadfield expressed his basic confidence in the Soyuz.
Pretty much all important functions can be triggered by the crew. For all points in time, e.g. for igniting the jets, a table is sent up daily, which is printed out and kept in the Soyuz. I can't say in detail whether the cruise engine overheats in the absence of cooling, but in simulations pretty much everything was played in for us and we still got as far as the upper atmosphere. From there on, the leaky cooling doesn't matter anyway. If there's a moisture problem in the capsule before the braking shock (that's where the cooling acts as a condensation surface) or it gets too hot, thanks to the Sokol #spacesuits you can deflate the air in the return capsule and come back under pure oxygen pressure. Very uncomfortable, but #doable. Soyuz is a life saver, not a limb saver, we were always told."

Reinhold Ewald https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhold_Ewald
"the three #cosmonauts would have had a good chance of returning in the broken #Soyuz. Like me, Chris #Hadfield expressed his basic confidence in the Soyuz.
Pretty much all important functions can be triggered by the crew. For all points in time, e.g. for igniting the jets, a table is sent up daily, which is printed out and kept in the Soyuz. I can't say in detail whether the cruise engine overheats in the absence of cooling, but in simulations pretty much everything was played in for us and we still got as far as the upper atmosphere. From there on, the leaky cooling doesn't matter anyway. If there's a moisture problem in the capsule before the braking shock (that's where the cooling acts as a condensation surface) or it gets too hot, thanks to the Sokol #spacesuits you can deflate the air in the return capsule and come back under pure oxygen pressure. Very uncomfortable, but #doable. Soyuz is a life saver, not a limb saver, we were always told."

Reinhold Ewald https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhold_Ewald
"the three #cosmonauts would have had a good chance of returning in the broken #Soyuz. Like me, Chris #Hadlield expressed his basic confidence in the Soyuz.
Pretty much all important functions can be triggered by the crew. For all points in time, e.g. for igniting the jets, a table is sent up daily, which is printed out and kept in the Soyuz. I can't say in detail whether the cruise engine overheats in the absence of cooling, but in simulations pretty much everything was played in for us and we still got as far as the upper atmosphere. From there on, the leaky cooling doesn't matter anyway. If there's a moisture problem in the capsule before the braking shock (that's where the cooling acts as a condensation surface) or it gets too hot, thanks to the Sokol #spacesuits you can deflate the air in the return capsule and come back under pure oxygen pressure. Very uncomfortable, but #doable. Soyuz is a life saver, not a limb saver, we were always told."

@cstross @angusm
So #AI will subdue us by hacking our #spacesuits and learning to edge us into complete submission.
At least this version of the apocalypse seems to be fun.

#Paragon’s recent acquisition 🦈 of #FinalFrontier Design – a leading supplier of #spacesuits – make it a strong team member for #Axiom.
Two companies to win the award with a potential total value of $3.5 billion 💰 across the life of the program. The 10-year contract is to develop the next generation #spacesuit which may be used for #Artemis missions to the #Moon and the #ISS https://www.paragonsdc.com/paragon-announces-nasa-xevas-3-5b-award-as-part-of-axiom-team

#SpaceSuit #LaunchCost #HumanSpaceflight

#Paragon’s recent acquisition 🦈 of #FinalFrontier Design – a leading supplier of #spacesuits – make it a strong team member for #Axiom.
Two companies to win the award with a potential total value of $3.5 billion 💰 across the life of the program. The 10-year contract is to develop the next generation #spacesuit which may be used for #Artemis missions to the #Moon and the #ISS https://www.paragonsdc.com/paragon-announces-nasa-xevas-3-5b-award-as-part-of-axiom-team

#SpaceSuit #LaunchCost #HumanSpaceflight

The #spacesuits #NASA currently uses are more than 40 years old. The spacesuit built in 1974 was reported to cost about $150 million 💵. NASA has invested about a quarter of a billion 💰 dollars developing the xEMU suit for its #Artemis program.
#FinalFrontier's will be around $2 million 💵 apiece or less https://www.businessinsider.com/why-nasa-spacesuits-so-expensive-cost-russia-spacex-2020-3?op=1

#HumanSpaceflightBasics #SpaceSuit

#AxiomSpace offers #SpaceTourism https://youtu.be/yBdNqqyQ1EA, develops #Artemis #Moonwalking #SpaceSuits https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/12/nasa-official-very-confident-artemis-spacesuits-will-be-ready-on-time/ and creates the first #commercial #SpaceStation in low #Earth orbit (#LEO) https://thespacebucket.com/axiom-station-is-continuing-to-make-progress

https://www.axiomspace.com/axiom-station

#SpaceCompany #SpaceTourism #SpaceSuits #SpaceStation

⁉️ Why is #Artemis II (at least) 2 years away ? "After more than a #decade ⌛ , they finally have taken flight together. #NASA only began funding the #lunar #lander, #SpaceX's #Starship vehicle, in 📆 2021. It only awarded #Axiom #Space a contract for #spacesuits in 📆 September. This leaves comparatively little time for their #development" https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/12/artemis-i-has-finally-launched-what-comes-next/4

Picture : #SLS rollout & https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dali%27s_watch_(211719105).jpg

Last week I told my husband that I have an ugly sweater holiday work party to go to and I'm stressing about it because I don't have an ugly sweater. He didn't really say anything back. I figured he wasn't listening. Then today he surprised me with this and I love it. It's totally not ugly though! #nasa #spacesuits #space

@jerrigirl Oh on the subject of #space - I bumped into @mizzlizwhizz who makes the most awesome #spacesuits out of charity shop curtains, etc. You should definitely check those out. I can't get over them.