Elon Musk’s New High-Tech Spacesuit humiliates Nasa and shocks the whole industry!
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As astronauts get ready to go back to the moon and spend more time in space, they’ll need better gear to help them survive.
The first thing on this list is definitely the spacesuit.
Yes, a spacesuit is more like a miniature spacecraft you wear around your body than an item of clothing. It’s pressurized, it’s decked out with life support systems, and it’s likely to look pretty cool. But should the suit fail, you’re toast.
In fact, no one has ever died because of a faulty spacesuit, but that doesn’t mean current models are perfect. Whether it’s for launch into space or reentry back to Earth, or for an extravehicular activity, astronauts have never been completely satisfied with the gear they are forced to put on for missions.
Fortunately, though, the flurry of new activity in space has meant we’re seeing more innovation in spacesuit design and performance than ever before.
This is when Elon Musk’s New High-Tech Spacesuit humiliates Nasa!
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Since SpaceX Dragon came into operation, in place of the baggy orange Advanced Crew Escape Suit (affectionately nicknamed the “pumpkin suit”) that space Shuttle crews used to wear when launching into orbit, SpaceX designed something that is much more form-fitting and half the mass. Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, the astronauts who went up on the Crew Dragon to the ISS for the first time, remarked that they were extremely comfortable and easy to get on and off. Suits that are worn during takeoff and reentry are designed to protect astronauts from fire, and they plug into seat umbilicals that carry oxygen and cool air in case the cabin depressurizes for some reason. In the event of capsule depressurization, the suits would be able to keep Dragon astronauts alive inside the capsule for at least a few days, supplying them with clean air and maintaining enough pressure to avoid altitude sickness (or worse).
The most interesting work, however, has to do with SpaceX’s next-generation spacesuit for astronauts going to walk on the surfaces of other planets and moons.
Revealed earlier this year, the Polaris Program is a sort of hybridization of orbital spaceflight tourism and technology development and has one primary goal: to “rapidly advance human spaceflight capabilities.”
Elon Musk’s New High-Tech Spacesuit humiliates Nasa and shocks the whole industry!
