Monday, April 24, 2023
What it takes to make a suit fit for the Moon
BBC Future: I
It will be the ultimate catwalk.
In 2025, when Nasa's Artemis III mission returns humanity to the Moon, billions of eyes will focus on two astronauts. And what they're wearing. Although the astronauts will undoubtedly bounce, rather than sashay, upon the lunar surface.
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I think that this is super cool and interesting. Just from a design perspective I don’t know about the shift from a majority white suit to a majority black suit. I feel like just from a very practical “ being able to see people existing and moving through outer space” kind of perspective. The classic white, chunky, marshmallow space suit makes the person who wears it immediately extremely visible against the black backdrop of space. While the newer space suit has the bright orange accents that would help with the visibility in kind of the construction worker type way. I do think that the updates to the suit will definitely help with things like lunar dust and other things of that nature. Lunar dust is not like earth dust, instead it is much more like tiny shards of glass which can hurt the instruments, technology, and the people within the suits.
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