NASA moon mission spacesuit nears milestone

NASA moon mission spacesuit nears milestone

The next-generation spacesuit for NASA's Artemis III mission continues to advance by passing a contractor-led technical review, as the agency prepares to send humans to the moon's South Pole for the first time. Testing is also underway for the new suits, built by Axiom Space, with NASA astronauts and spacesuit engineers recently simulating surface operations and tasks underwater to demonstrate safety and mobility.

From Apollo’s Bulky Bunny Suits to Artemis’s High-Tech Armor: Inside the Spacesuit That Will Return Humans to the Moon

More than half a century after Neil Armstrong left his bootprints in the lunar regolith, NASA is inching closer to sending astronauts back to the Moon — and this time, they’ll be wearing something far more sophisticated than the stiff, balloon-like pressure garments of the Apollo era. The next-generation spacesuit being developed for the Artemis III mission has just cleared a critical contractor-led technical review, marking one of the most sign…