[ExI] NASA designs new spacesuits for next lunar mission in 2024

John Grigg possiblepaths2050 at gmail.com
Fri Jun 11 14:20:55 UTC 2021


"The astronauts on the Artemis missions
<https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/09/world/nasa-artemis-person-of-color-crew-scn/index.html>,
NASA's next program to send the first woman and the first person of color
<https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/09/entertainment/nichelle-nichols-nasa-star-trek/index.html>
to the moon, will wear the latest spacesuit, called the exploration
extravehicular mobility unit, also known as xEMU. Before the spacesuits
make it to the moon, parts of them will be tested
<https://www.nasa.gov/feature/a-next-generation-spacesuit-for-the-artemis-generation-of-astronauts>
on the International Space Station."
[image: NASA revealed a ground prototype of the new exploration
extravehicular mobility unit (xEMU) in 2019 at NASA Headquarters in
Washington.]

https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/spacesuit-design-artemis-program-scn/index.html
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