NASA Unveils 2 New Spacesuits for Moon Mission

NASA unveiled two new spacesuits, Tuesday, October 15, designed for the space agency’s Artemis moon mission, which is scheduled to return Americans to the moon by 2024.

One of the suits, called the Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit, will be worn by astronauts while exploring the surface of the moon’s south pole. The second, called the Orion Crew Survival System, will be worn during the launch to the moon and then re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere.

In March, Vice President Mike Pence ordered NASA to land humans on the moon by 2024, accelerating a goal to colonize the moon as a staging ground for an eventual mission to Mars.

The mission also is part of a search for ice on the moon. A NASA rocket that crashed into the moon’s south pole a decade ago revealed vast reserves of ice beneath the surface. To find out prior to the Artemis moon mission whether the ice is in large chunks or combined with the soil, NASA is working to put rovers on the moon by 2022. (REUTERS)

[readyplayer]

ugly colors. White always looks best on spacesuits, with hints of black. Honestly shoulda just repurposed ISS suits, it would have saved them time and effort.

[kevdiv]

should of got her to pickup a camera and use it

[teamfear]

I wonder if they will film the moon landing in nevada or in a movie studio...

[gerardcomeau]

*STANLEY KUBRIK FILMED ALL THE MOON LANDINGS*

[Daniel_Palmqvist]

Why didnt they put an exoskeleton to co-op with the new suits like they said 10 years ago. It would easily make a 150kg's suit feel like a 15kg's suit.

[ArzeeRoxs]

They rlly took the fortnite helmet lmao

[icytea]

Damn she was struggling with that rock LMAO 🤦

[cinnamon-skateboarding]

Yeah, I hope these new suits are an upgrade, I know that aesthetics aren’t everything, and I hope this is way more functional then the Apollo era ones.

[rosscityofliverpool.]

How nice... A red one. What a waste of cash.

[speedking]

Millions and millions of taxpayers money was used for R&D and it's a struggle to even pick a rock.

[mrworldwide]

She can bearly touch the ground and they say movement is ez 🙃

[JimD]

These should when well exlporing Greenland

[someguycalledsteven]

Is this about them having to replace a female astronaut with a male one cause the suit didn’t fit her?

[sirdrakey]

The red one reminds me of the one from 2001!

[arnottsbiscuits]

50 years later,

And a rock cannot be picked up?
Back to the drawing board guys!!!!
(make good use of that green screen)

[captaingalaxy]

How can you tell the woman's suit from the man's? There's no black triangle on the woman's crotch. Don't laugh.

[FirstLast.....]

Man can't even flee the planet, without some woman tagging along, so she can steal his peace and tranquility and make everything about her.

[machax]

how will they be able shit on the moon if they cant pick a stone?

[abegraber]

To all you goofy commenters....Get serious....
We ARE going to the Moon in 2024....That could be a very exciting achievement.

Something you won't accomplish sitting on year rear end tapping on your phone.

[cwall]

Maybe they can send AOC to the moon and leave her.