NASA Spacesuit Development

NASA takes you on the journey engineers go through to make a spacesuit. What challenges must be overcome to build a spacesuit capable of withstanding the heat, cold and the extreme environment of space? Learn about the accomplishments achieved by humans working in space, and discover two new prototype spacesuits, the PXS and the Z-2, as NASA continues to build on a 50 year legacy of spacesuits and prepares the next generation of explorers for the Journey to Mars.

[TickettheMoon]

My daughter loves these videos. She's 6 and wants to be an astronaut. 😊

[chrisvancil]

Why would anyone dislike this video? It depends where the suit would be used as to whether the light has utility or not. Shadows are dark in space and on the Moon. A light is handy and hands free as well. As Kyle A and jscott1000 point out: The outer layer is the only thing the public had input into and the covering can have many different looks and still be completely functional. If it looks cool fine.

[personok]

Why does the Z2 have knuckle gloves? To fight aliens?

[berndlauert]

Mercury Program: Suits by engineers meant to get the job done.
2015 NASA: Fashion designers and neon lights.
I don't even ...
Talk about life support and energy needs, protection and endurance. ... not friggin' fashion

[spacepd]

Really nice to see some of the new concepts. The lighting elements are a nice touch, as long as one can turn them off too. Perhaps some glow-in-the-dark material would be good to harness the sunlight, passively? That could be what that lighted element was, perhaps. New range of motion looks great.

[StvnFlrs]

I think the suits are looking great. I am more excited about how the videos that are being produced are much better!

[petrapatia]

whenever you hear a NASA engineer say "we were able to take some artistic liberties" you know with total certainty that whatever it was was never intended for actual use.

[Alex_Hampshire]

anyone else laughed when the astronaut fell.

[georgejaparidze]

I think that Mini computer attached to the suit is really necessary and cool.

[WDC_OSA]

Does the big light on the Z2 actually serve a purpose?

[popsplace]

Hands on in development is always a plus!!!

[humanity.]

yeah I'm not american so my dreams of working for NASA i had were *crushed*
it wasn't easy

[bernadetteocak]

veri veri good working space man and women astronaut disaine veri naice good flay NASA and ESSA

[sycabara]

2:46
Are we sending Quasimodo into space??

[giltiger]

One thing missing in all these projects suits to walk on the surface of Mars, on Moon or other planets is a auxiliary equilibrium system to compensate the inability of our human labyrinth to manege these huge and heavy suits in and non standard earth gravity environment.
A suit to work properly in future off-Earth bases with normal people not so prepared and trained like NASA astronauts for extended periods of time must have one structured active exoskeleton incorporated in the suit (meta materials and/or electric activated materials working like muscles) and linked to an ACTIVE device to provide ultra fast dynamic equilibrium.
Something like a mix with this anti-earthquake systems for very-high buildings and additionally to this system we could integrate an extra device like these modern one or two wheels Segway style transportation devices.
The two systems must be mechanic and electronic linked by the active exoskeleton and work together to active help the astronaut to be stand up and move safely.
The main function of the exoskeleton is to manege the equilibrium of backpack no matter his size or weight giving to the user of the suit the illusion that the survival unit backpack is not there and he only have to manege his body with active help of the suit.
The Segway type segment unit is for fast and/or large dislocations and could be optionally used or not by the user.
I think this design must be seriously considered to be incorporated in future suit designs in long term off-world missions.

[daniellesmagic]

I love this video! I've always been very curious about the spacesuits! The ships, shuttles and stations are incredibly cool, but I'm amazed that you can send a human safely out into space with fabric and materials made on our planet! I'd love to see even more! How do the gloves clip on and keep out bad air? What sort of temperature and oxygen control source do they use!? How heavy are the suits? How much training do the astronauts have getting used to the suit before they're sent out for an EVA? Thanks for the video!!

[ItsJustMilkISwear]

good. we need to look like aliens so that when we meet aliens they'll know we're aliens.

[puppeli]

the GUI in the "suit control assembly" needs some work. To me it looks like glare from the sun would, all too easily make it difficult to read the text on the screen. Bolder text might help a little..

[myrllenesoares]

Um dia vai ser eu, e sendo FÍSICA/ASTROFÍSICA COM DOUTORADO EM OUTRO PAÍS PRINCIPALMENTE EUA, ASTRONAUTA E DOUTORA EM ASTROFÍSICA! SCIENTIST!
One day I will be an astronaut and a PhD in astrophysics / astroparticle physics, in another country mainly in the United States, SCIENTIST!

[arjayph]

let's wait for SpaceX's design