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Not the Moon suit we were promised—and thank goodness for that

Kristine Davis, a spacesuit engineer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, wearing a ground prototype of NASA’s Artemis Moon suit, during a demonstration in October 2019.
Kristine Davis, a spacesuit engineer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, wearing a ground prototype of NASA’s Artemis Moon suit, during a demonstration in October 2019. Photo: NASA/Joel Kowsky

NASA has been working on this Moon suit for quite some time, in a project that’s fallen woefully behind schedule. Back in October 2019, the space agency demonstrated the in-development suit during an event at its headquarters in Washington D.C., with NASA spacesuit engineer Kristine Davis donning the clunky prototype. Looking at this sorry excuse for a Moon suit, I can honestly say that NASA did the right thing when it chose to outsource the project to private partners.

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