Everything you wanted to know about spacesuits. The design challenges; the women who sewed them; current leading edge thinking in spacesuit design for extended missions to Mars and elsewhere; and the challenges of being a female astronaut.
In the Venn diagram of life, it’s hard to imagine what spacecraft and women’s underwear might have in common. And that’s probably what NASA engineers thought back in 1962 when they asked a handful of ...Show More
NASA Exploration EVA System Development Lead Jesse Buffington discusses spacesuit design for spacewalks on the Moon and Mars.
Space travel is not always high-tech. When the Apollo astronauts landed on the Moon in 1969, seamstresses made their spacesuits at a company famous for stitching latex into Playtex bras. During the Sp...Show More
It was supposed to be an historic moment—the first all-female spacewalk. And then it was cancelled, for reasons that only reinforced the need for it. But space is unforgiving, and the slightest slip c...Show More
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Another in a spate of podcasts about the intricacies of spacesuit design. This one also talks about how the Playtex girdle company won the spacesuit contract over military contractors. I think I’m g...Show More