After 40 years Nasa's astronauts finally get a spacesuit upgrade for their next mission to the Moon.
The Axiom prototype suit was revealed on Wednesday. The final suit for the lunar mission will be the traditional whiteA new generation of spacesuit for humanity's return trip to the Moon has been unveiled by Nasa.
But previous plans to send female astronauts to space have been scuppered by the lack of spacesuits in their size.In 2021 Nasa had planned to send an entirely female team of astronauts to the International Space Station to complete a space walk. The key requirement of a spacesuit is to provide oxygen to the astronauts which allow them to survive in the near-vacuum of space. This aspect requires careful design, as failure would see an astronaut's lungs rapidly expand causing death.
Texas-based company Axiom Space won a $228 million contract last year to design the suits, and now six months later they've revealed the first prototype. The helmet also comes with an HD video camera to allow videos from the moon to be watched in high definition back on Earth. The prototype is part of a $1bn investment by Nasa to get two flight-ready spacesuits in time for the Moon mission.
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