The luxury brand will help in the design of the outer layer of the spacesuit that will be donned by NASA astronauts on the Moon.
Astronauts traveling to the Moon as part of NASA’s Artemis program will go there in style as Axiom Space taps luxury brand Prada to assist in the design of its spacesuit.its collaboration with Prada to design NASA’s lunar spacesuits for the Artemis 3 mission, which is scheduled to launch in 2025.
Engineers at Prada will work alongside the team at Axiom Space throughout the design process, “developing solutions for materials and design features to protect against the unique challenge of space and the lunar environment,” Axiom wrote.. AxEMU, or Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit, was developed with the legacy of NASA spacesuits in mind while incorporating new technology, more mobility, and protection from the lunar environment.
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