For NASA's New Suits, 'Mobility' Is The Watchword
The space agency unveils two new spacesuits for a planned 2024 return to the moon. They're designed to be more comfortable and easier to move around in than their Apollo-era forerunners.
by Scott Neuman
Oct 16, 2019
2 minutes
NASA has unveiled prototypes of its next generation space suits to be worn inside the Orion spacecraft and on the surface of the moon when American astronauts return there as soon as 2024.
At the space agency's headquarters in Washington, D.C., two NASA engineers modeled the new suits destined for the , one known as
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