NASA chooses companies to develop next-generation spacesuits

NASA announced that it has agreed with companies to develop spacesuits for astronauts for future spacewalks aboard the International Space Station and Artemis missions to the Moon. Under the agreement, Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace will provide spacesuits to NASA until 2034.

First product will arrive by 2025

In a new blog post, NASA shared a total of 3.5 under Extravehicular Exploration Operations Services ( xEVAS ) contract to supply spacesuits for their future missions by 2034. got a billion-dollar deal.

NASA, which encounters certain problems because the space suits used on the ISS were designed about 45 years ago, wants to use new suits in future missions. Initially, the space agency would develop the suits itself, but the timeline was not conducive to this, which led to the decision being abandoned.

NASA experts defined the technical and safety standards that spacesuits should have, and the companies said that the specified requirements will be met. Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace plan to submit the new spacesuits to the space agency by 2025, after testing them.