November 2018
Creating the ‘Space for Art Foundation’
...physically built through many hours of volunteer workmanship at spacesuit company ILC Dover in Houston, and Victory by ... to Russia. We are continuing the successful mission of the spacesuits by building two more, Dreamer and Exploration. Dreamer, led ...
April 2026
Rethinking the spacesuit as a biological system
... human body and the system remains fundamentally constrained, you’re only postponing the problem.” Illustration of an advanced spacesuit wrist joint using origami-inspired folded structures that distribute stress across flexible surfaces rather than...
May 2024
Out of this world – NASA’s textile technicians and innovations for space voyages
...location because of its extreme temperatures, craters, sharp regolith, shadowed areas and changing illumination conditions. New spacesuits have therefore been developed to keep astronauts safe and comfortable on the lunar surface. NASA selected Axiom...
October 2018
Developing wearable technologies for space and Earth
...the human space flight mission fosters a unique translation of technologies between multiple-application environments. NASA’s original spacesuits for the Mercury programme were made to be worn inside the spacecraft. The photograph shows astronaut Gus...
27 March 2019
NASA to land humans on the Moon again by 2024 - but with better fitting spacesuits hopefully
... torso aboard, but to stay on schedule with @Space_Station upgrades, it’s safer & faster to change spacewalker assignments than reconfigure spacesuits." Still, given the significance of the all-female space walk and considering that the agency has...
September 2016
Paediatric cancer patients aim for the stars with space inspired art project
... if he could help me get accurate specs for a space suit. Jacob Ballard, who has participated in the HOPE spacesuit project, pictured with his mum Letha at the SpaceX launch pad, Kennedy Space Center, before the...
