NASA orders new spacesuits for humans to explore the cosmos 

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“When we get to the Moon, we will have our first person of color and our first woman that will be wearers and users of these suits in space,” said Vanessa Wyche, director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Much needed space-wear update

It is projected that the spacesuits should be ready for beta testing in the ISS in 3 years.

Time is of the essence since the spacesuits currently worn on the ISS “have exceeded their design life by more than 25 years, necessitating costly maintenance to ensure astronaut safety.”

Dina Centella, NASA space station operations integration manager, said that NASA’s current suits have “been the workhorse for the agency for 40 years.” And added they have been worn on 169 spacewalks.

The much-needed update is important since “the spacesuit technology though, of course, at 40 years old is now aging, and so we’d like to try new future technologies.”

The new partnership is a key to the new Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships 2. NASA is developing space with a series of public-private partnerships.