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Luxury fashion house Prada will be designing NASA's new spacesuits so astronauts can fly in style
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Italian luxury fashion house Prada is collaborating with commercial space company Axiom Space to design NASA's new spacesuits for its Artemis III mission in 2025 so astronauts can fly in style, Prada and Axiom Space announced Wednesday.
"We are thrilled to partner with Prada on the Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AxEMU) spacesuit," Axiom Space's CEO Michael Suffredini said in its press release.
"Prada's technical expertise with raw materials, manufacturing techniques, and innovative design concepts will bring advanced technologies instrumental in ensuring not only the comfort of astronauts on the lunar surface, but also the much-needed human factors considerations absent from legacy spacesuits."
The new AxEMU suits have specialized tools and design elements that will give astronauts greater capabilities for space exploration and scientific research, while protecting them against the harsh environment so they can live and work on and around the moon.
NASA hired Axiom Space in June 2022 to build its latest spacesuits after revealing it had spent $420 million since 2017 trying to develop its own suits.
A prototype of the AxEMU's in dark gray and orange was revealed in March but the final version will be white.
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