NASA and Axiom Space have finally unveiled the Artemis Moon suits and the design will offer flexibility and protection for astronauts.
It has been over 50 years since the Apollo program put humanity on the surface of the Moon. Now, as NASA prepares to continue its Artemis missions, the space agency has had to address one colossal problem: aging spacesuits just aren’t going to cut it for these new missions. In answer, NASA and Axiom Space debuted the first prototype of the Artemis Moon suits that the agency will use in its Artemis missions.
The new suits, which have been dubbed AxEMU, are a new generation of Moon suits designed to be safe and flexible while also withstanding the extreme temperatures at the Moon’s south pole. Two astronauts are expected to land in that harsh environment within the next few years when theIt’s an iconic mission that needed an iconic suit to pull it off, and Axiom Space, the company behind the suit, has pulled off the look perfectly.
While NASA will utilize the new Artemis Moon suits for its Moon-based missions , Axiom will retain all rights to the design. As such, we’ll likely see the design being utilized by commercial customers as well, The suit seen in the images above, though, won’t be precisely the same when astronauts wear it on the Moon.
Instead, it features a cover layer designed to help cover sensitive information Axiom doesn’t want to be picked up by its competition. These new Artemis Moon suits have been a long time coming, especially with the current design of NASA’s spacesuits dating back 40 years, increasing the
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Axiom Space reveals prototype spacesuit for Artemis astronauts on the moonRobert Pearlman is a space historian, journalist and the founder and editor of collectSPACE.com, an online publication and community devoted to space history with a particular focus on how and where space exploration intersects with pop culture. Pearlman is also a contributing writer for Space.com and co-author of 'Space Stations: The Art, Science, and Reality of Working in Space” published by Smithsonian Books in 2018. He previously developed online content for the National Space Society and Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin, helped establish the space tourism company Space Adventures and currently serves on the History Committee of the American Astronautical Society, the advisory committee for The Mars Generation and leadership board of For All Moonkind. In 2009, he was inducted into the U.S. Space Camp Hall of Fame in Huntsville, Alabama. In 2021, he was honored by the American Astronautical Society with the Ordway Award for Sustained Excellence in Spaceflight History.
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