NASA’s new Prada-designed space suit looks like an Apollo dupe, but it’s so much more
But the retro feel is deceiving ... the new suit is based on the original lunar space suit developed by NASA in 2019, which ...
PBS7 年
living in space
back to the top- Spacesuits for the space shuttle era are pressurized at 4.3 pounds per square inch (psi), but because the gas in the suit is 100 percent oxygen instead of 20 percent, the person ...
National Geographic news7 年
How Space Suits Are Evolving for Missions Beyond the Moon
Yet in some ways they’ve hardly changed. Now as then, a space suit is essentially a gas-filled, human-shaped covering. (Exceptions include the form-fitting suits Dava Newman is developing at MIT ...
Metro24 天
The surprising thing David Bowie wore to smuggle cocaine to Iggy Pop in a psych ward
David Bowie visited Iggy Pop in a psych ward in 1975…wearing a space suit (Picture: Sipa/REX/Shutterstock) Dressed in space suits, David Bowie and Dennis Hopper walk into a psych ward to smuggle ...