NASA’s Next-Generation Spacesuits - A Behind-The-Scenes Look

NASA has been using the current spacesuits on the International Space Station for decades and they are showing their age. The agency has had issues not only with finding the proper sizes to fit its increasingly diverse astronaut corps, but also with degradation of some suit components. Now NASA is turning to two commercial companies: Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace, a subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies, to build and maintain its new generation of spacesuits. Under the Exploration Extravehicular Activity Services Contract, or xEVAS, NASA is providing Collins and Axiom, along with a number of their industry partners, with up to $3.5 billion through 2034. CNBC got a behind-the-scenes look at the new suit that Collins Aerospace is designing in collaboration with partners ILC Dover and Oceaneering. NASA hopes to use this new suit on the International Space Station by 2026.
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
02:39 - Dire need
08:00 - The Collins suit
12:48 - Future missions
Produced by: Magdalena Petrova
Supervising Producer: Jeniece Pettitt
Graphics: Christina Locopo, Mallory Brangan
Additional Camera: Andrew Evers
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NASA’s Next-Generation Spacesuits - A Behind-The-Scenes Look

[@calebmahoney5462]

I know it sounds silly, but I think it’s important for the space suits to look cool and inspiring. Those suits from the 70s are so iconic and have a real life super hero aesthetic. As a kid I remember seeing those suits and being blown away. I hope the new suits have that same effect on younger generations.

[@matthewstanley8853]

forealllllllll bro

[@Rossett.S]

I totally agree with you. Its gotta look cool, most of people watching don't give a F if it has all the necessary stuff to help the astronaut and water cooling system and all the technicalities, most people don't understand it, and are just going to look at it from the tv. Not only that but is also important so that astronauts get more visibility.

[@thetruejuanalto]

i agree they look old, and disagree on the effect. we need to get past this 1960's mental block people are stuck on... the rest of the world has and it's making us...the U.S. look obsolete..

[@keps_ksk]

These spacesuits are most likely gonna be decorated with flags, emblems, names and so on once they're done with the functionalities, they'd also alter the suit later on to fit with the gear they'll use, thus giving it a complete look I'd say give it time

[@NighteyesJP]

The new ones look fine too.

[@ipkulkarni]

Worked for Collins Aerospace for 14 years… feeling proud to see the name on the suit

[@ipkulkarni]

@Shadow Filip The company was called Rockwell Collins which was bought over by Raytheon and renamed to Collins Aerospace…..Do some research!

[@NEBIDIMKA]

@Shadow Filip Rockwell Collins was founded in 2001 as a result of another acquisition

[@Daniel-qy9mb]

I’m guessing you didn’t see any of that 3 billion dollars. Am I right?

[@frustratedpanda212]

Are you from Maharashtra?

[@manz007]

Isha G good work. Aap ab kaha kam karte ho?

[@wirelesmike73]

As impressive as the space vehicles are, it amazes me that the suits don't get the public attention that they deserve. The amount of engineering and jewel-like precision in fabrication required to make so many parts work seamlessly and reliably together in such a small package is genuinely mindblowing and has fascinated me since I was a kid. Edit: It's disheartening to read some of the absurd replies to this comment. So few people understand how much the R&D from NASA projects, (including suit tech) has benefited them and the rest of society as a whole. And, anybody who believes that the earth is flat, or that we never went to space or the moon shouldn't even be using the technological devices that enable them to post such ignorant garbage on the internet, because according to you, the science that makes that possible isn't real. I'd blame the education system, except for the fact that I learned from that same system, and I didn't turn out to be a dimwitted imbecile who can't understand simple concepts like "funding for the development of a new space suit design isn't all spent on making one individual suit". It's really sad that expressing interest in technological development triggers such unwarranted hate and distrust in people, half of which likely wouldn't even be alive today if it weren't for the discoveries and advances in practically every aspect of modern development that derived directly from the publically funded R&D conducted by NASA and fellow aerospace centers, here, and around the world. To all of you out there who share my appreciation for these kinds of achievements and collaborations, I thank you for all the "likes".🚀❤🤍💙🤓 To all the needlessly obsessed, tin-foil hat-wearing detractors, science deniers, and NASA haters out there, don't bother replying. I'll not be engaging with such idiocy any further. You are a huge part of what's wrong with the world today. You are part of the problem. Enough is enough, I'm turning my notifications off. Congratulations, you just succeeded in ruining one more thing in the world. Have fun living your lives in fear and ignorance. I pity your children.

[@tevarinvagabond1192]

A lot of people have a flawed mindset that efforts for going out to space is worthless. These people usually say things like "our tax dollars are being wasted when we could use them for better things", or in the case of private space companies "they're wasting money that could have been used to house and feed the poor" etc etc. These people don't seem to realise that as humans, we can do multiple things at once...we can do good for the poor AND go to space. Plus, so many technologies made for space end up having a myriad of uses here on earth; the thing is, technology only comes about through a real need, through adversity. In first world countries, there's not as much true hardship to drive innovation, so challenges like space travel is key in pushing people to get educated and bring about progress. I honestly believe that we should focus even MORE on space, so many problems we face today can be alleviated and/or solved by expanding to the rest of our solar system. Heck, even building industry on the moon could mean we could stop mining on earth completely, thus allowing us to reclaim the natural habitats that mining destroys on our planet, as well as reducing pollution in a meaningful way. We all need to look towards the stars to have the brighter future we all want

[@witext]

Just machining these suits and designing them is hard already, but they also have to work under thermal expansion and contraction in space, to account for such an extreme environment is everything but easy

[@TheBooban]

Why do you want to bring attention to this failure? 4.5 billion dollars and no suit to bring attention to yet.

[@hassanqayyum8954]

Sir your curiosity and appreciate has impressed us and we'd like to extend you an employment opportunity with NASA and SpaceX as personal assistant to Elon Musk

[@lmlmanonfire13]

Problem solving leads to new discoveries! Id much rather if we’re gonna spend money on tech/R&D it’s this rather than war. Anywho! Space suits are really hard. Think of them like spaceships in the shape of a person. Joints are incredibly complicated little problems to solve.

[@garygullikson6349]

Modern suits look a lot less bulky and awkward than Apollo era suits. Amazing that they can provide safe life support in near vacuum including temperature control, oxygen, communication, and reasonable comfort.

[@LuckyLuke369-TeamRH]

And a place to poo also!

[@anitasaad4875]

siapa yg sapot kamu kamu yg menyamar dlm akuan mybank2 aku

[@frankdatank5002]

Interesting I thought I read a few years back how nasa is no longer a fan of suits that connect at the hip with the ring thing because of added weight and complexity and instead preferred the Apollo and Russian style with zipper in back. The article mentioned they were looking back at those but also those the astronaut climbs in at the back right behind the life support system/pack like the nasa made prototype shown in this very video. So it’s interesting to see the collins suit is the current hip ring shuttle type.

[@SDGreg]

The later Apollo suits (Apollo 15-17) went to a front zipper and added a waist joint to allow the astronaut to sit in the Lunar Rover.

[@silentmajority8365]

Well this one has a back flap to probe Uranus

[@altazhoraz]

hsha dont be stupid everyone knows laundry money

[@lostpony4885]

@@silentmajority8365 i hope that feature fits in the budget

[@AK-tf3fc]

Nasa is racist

[@benmcreynolds8581]

I really like the Collins design the most by far. This stuff is facinating. I wish we had more things that would focus on the amazing aspects of these space suits. Material science & engineering advancements alongside technology is probably helping improve this field of research and design so much

[@TheRunoben]

I wish we can make Warhammer 40 K space marine/primarch inspired suits if they were made then young people would actually be interested in space I’m not trying to knock down their work but young people are more visual and just spaceships look boring and the suits look boring so most young people aren’t interested unless they’re like certain types of nerds, because as a nerd myself I like high fantasy comic book characters, over the top stuff, sci-fi The majority of people interested in this are technical nerds which aren’t the majority of young people once again I don’t mean hate it’s just that too young people they don’t look interesting. If you guys really want more focus on this I suggest making it look cool.

[@attilaabonyi8879]

Not to discredit the engineers and scientists but how many more variations is it gonna take before your happy with the design? You have been working on this since like 2000's to 2010's is it not good enough already?

[@planetsec9]

This was so cool! More videos like this please, of everything new and exciting happening in space and lunar exploration. I can't wait to see Axiom's lunar spacesuit design. It was a very weird choice for NASA to go with Axiom for lunar spacesuits when Collins/ILC are the companies that make the Apollo spacesuits while Axiom is new and focused on private space tourism and their own private space station, so why are they designing the lunar spacesuits not the ISS replacement suits? Weird decisions from NASA I hope they're the right ones.

[@TheBooban]

Axiom got $228 million and Collins just $98 million. And they saying the suits are similar. Uh?

[@lazerith840]

Maybe Axiom is making a better suit. Companies like Collins need some competitive enthusiasm so they don’t become reliant on free government money. Same with NASA, they are slow to do anything, unlike private sector.

[@johnsnow5955]

@@lazerith840 Tell the NASA that went to the moon in the 60s they are slow to do anything LOL The private sector still hasn't accomplished that task. Maybe if people like yourself chose to fund NASA instead relying on the private sector, we wouldn't have this problem. Can't cut funding for 40 years and expect magic to happen.

[@lazerith840]

@@johnsnow5955 NASA gets tax dollars, so I already am pitching towards funding them. Also it’s because it’s government funded it moves slow. If it was a private corporation it would probably be doing more.

[@johnsnow5955]

@@lazerith840 hahaha tax dollars don’t pay for anything we are trillions in debt but I do love when the village idiots make that claim. None of the work NASA has done would have gotten done in the private sector wanna know why? IT ISN’T PROFITABLE

[@jeremysart]

Great to see Collins and Axiom pulling through. Imagine going to space only to almost be drowned by a failing space suit 😱

[@xeflatio93]

Space suits are basically space ships with a human shape, it's amaizing

[@ProjectRealityV1]

I'd classify it more as a mobile habitat, than a spaceship tbh.

[@frankjames7272]

Right! And its not the journey into space that is important. Its the friends we meet along the way

[@BisexualPlagueDoctor]

@@ProjectRealityV1they usually come with some sort of EVA though

[@GolfInHawaii69]

​@@frankjames7272Until they probe u 💀

[@cadmanfox6874]

@@BisexualPlagueDoctor Yeah.. it's an EVA suit lmao. That doesn't make it a spaceship

[@keylllogdark]

man that 4ss is massive

[@KBSINN]

Very interesting thank you for covering this area .

[@silentmajority8365]

Near Uranus

[@Penultimeat]

Once we get some of these specific parts made, it’s gonna be much easier to adapt these suits to more complex missions.

[@ConsumptiveSoul]

Indeed just like everything else when it comes out, people adapt to it, and be much easier to make

[@shmookins]

18000 components for the current suit? Jesus! I had no idea it was this complicated. Also, I thought it was just one space suit for anything in space; space walks, moon walks, or Mars walks.

[@asage5801]

Yeah, its way more complicated than the laypeople know

[@JamarD421]

Right? That's seriously crazy stuff. I didn't think it was so many components. Not even in the thousands. Absolutely amazing yet terrifying. So much to go wrong.

[@nomenclature9373]

Every microchip, resister, plug, wire, screw, bolt, nut, fabric panel, yada, yada...... It quickly adds up.

[@SimplySketchyGT]

The suit is basically a space craft not a suit. Super complicated bits of kit.

[@JamarD421]

@s k y b o y I don't know about you but I would definitely want an over-engineered suit to protect me in the vacuum of space.

[@Blarnix]

These suits look awesome. I can’t imagine how much this’ll improve EVA efficiency and ingress/egress.

[@TyTyMcGinty]

NASA makes the suit for 4 mill. 3.5 billion is the Nordstrom markup.

[@enadegheeghaghe6369]

It's all jokes with you guys

[@janeblogs324]

Thanks captain obvious.

[@ThyNam3less]

Nah. It's all scam

[@enadegheeghaghe6369]

@@farplenorp maybe you folks should design and build a competent space suit for for 4 million, then if the Astronauts survive in them, you would have proved your point. Otherwise ya'll just mouthing off.

[@MrCooper89]

@@enadegheeghaghe6369 I bet SpaceX could do it for a whole lot less than what it costs NASA to do it internally. Turns out that merging these developments with business interests tends to result in more efficiency.

[@dkking787]

The guy taking about making a machine to make spacesuits very creative that’s what we need creative thinking

[@silentmajority8365]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣Covid proof?

[@dubskins420]

Yeah they’ll cover it in surgical masks no problem

[@mudman6156]

Getting to test out spacesuits would be a fantastic job!!!

[@favesongslist]

Next mouth (March 2023) SpaceX will do the first Spacewalk of their new EVA Space suit. ALL four astronauts will be testing them at the same time.

[@partypooper8198]

@@favesongslist when exactly? it's march

[@favesongslist]

@@partypooper8198 The Polaris Dawn flight to test the EVA suits has been delayed until July.

[@partypooper8198]

@@favesongslist figures..

[@unknownsender3823]

Use a human in a space, Moon or Mars suit under actual environmental conditions they’d be exposed to? Too dangerous on Earth.

[@lazarusblackwell6988]

Where is the OSD (On Screen Display) on the helmet? Dont you think it would be way cooler if the helmet had a digital display?

[@AC-be5gu]

Cool yes, but that’s such a large increase in complexity required. Production, maintenance, and repairs….

[@lazarusblackwell6988]

@@AC-be5gu More excuses. They didnt make excuses back in the 60s when they put a man on the moon.

[@FritzSchober]

Looks more flexible than the old moon suits. But not very much.

[@mitseraffej5812]

It didn’t look to be pressurised.

[@_mikolaj_]

Every EVA suit looks flexible when its unpressurised here on earth, we will see how it will be in vacum

[@PrograError]

Well... We shall see once we get back, maybe we will see them fly on *Dear Moon*

[@fukhue8226]

Without a "Hard Suit" the air pressure in the suit will fight all movements, even the fingers.

[@mitseraffej5812]

@@fukhue8226 I understand that the suits are pressurised to 4.7 PSI, about the pressure on top of Mt Everest for this reason. To compensate it’s filled with pure oxygen. The low pressure of the suit requires the users to pre breath oxygen for 30 minutes prior to donning, this purges their blood of nitrogen so as not to get the bends. My vision of an ideal suit is a powered flexible exoskeleton made out of a material that mimics muscle and tendons and maintains normal atmospheric pressure and nitrogen/oxygen ratio. The user has a neurolink implant that controls the suits movement, perfectly synchronised with body movements. Now all someone has to do is build it, someone smarty that I.🤪

[@dansands8140]

3.5 billion dollars is how much SpaceX is paying to develop the entire Starship program.

[@szymonnah]

Do you actually understand that a space suit is literally a mini flexible starship right? It’s ridiculously hard to get it done properly. Since ones they will do that it’s gonna be the standard for another 50-70y or smth.

[@dansands8140]

@@szymonnah No... no it is not. I don't even know where to begin with that claim. Regardless, SpaceX is also developing an EVA suit which should be ready by July, which is when the Polaris Dawn spacewalk mission is scheduled to go.

[@MBbeme]

@@szymonnah no he doesn’t understand and you don’t either lolol 😂

[@kaustubhraizada]

anything can be done nasa is just burning money in wrong direction

[@luigeribeiro]

LOL LOL LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

[@Joker-yw9hl]

The original suits are iconic but these new ones are long overdue

[@TheRunoben]

They also look boring. We know about these suits and there’s not really much hype to it. I want something that looks cool.

[@KieranBLK]

Absolutely amazing. Love the design. This is what I genuinely love to it. The major jump in technological advancement and innovation from a years old product to current generation. Unfortunately it’s not yet iron man nanotech but I guess it’ll do til we get to that point.

[@bluemantom77]

I hope this happens it would be great to see maybe a similar space suit when we go to Mars in over 10 years

[@REThesNutz]

Niga they can’t even get 2 the moon

[@michaelweber1921]

Meh, so much time and money wasted. Just do what China and Russia does and steal the tech after western try hards waste their time and money.

[@Supraboyes]

10, more like 200

[@dom_xi-dzopa720]

you wont know of any Mars manned or womanned mission in under the amount of likes this comment of yours gets, unless you are somehow necessary for its happening, they won't tell you until they have went thrice and returned, same as moon. NASA was for pedestrian launches mainly even though it is a military shell agency, but there will likely be some sort of conflict or another so this will not be that relevant due to distracting long suffering and discomfort-ability.

[@caesarsalad1170]

Robots are good enough for barren radiation soaked wastelands.

[@ding_chavez7613]

I love this. Every space agency is literally our future I appreciate the hell out of them!

[@SynthwavelLover]

Nah our planet is our future. This'll be useful in a few thousand years maybe but for now we really should take care of earth.

[@adredy]

and broke !

[@iknowledgeaqu]

Remember this mission? How does one explain finger holes, in space, in a pressurized space suite? kzbin.info/www/bejne/hmOndGiubs-se5Y

[@stormjet814]

@@SynthwavelLover Uhhh no, space absolutely is our future Way more resources and room to expand Earth is just a starting point, that while yes should be taken care of, we should not be squatting in it and not attempting to move forward like a 40 year old in their parent’s basement after a while.

[@minartson]

@@SynthwavelLover Space exploration has always made life easier for humans, a lot of technology we have everyday use today came from NASA.

[@vimalramachandran]

The development of spacesuits is much more complicated than I initially imagined.

[@ToneyCrimson]

Its basically a mini-spaceship.

[@vimalramachandran]

@@ToneyCrimson True

[@presleymeck]

@@ToneyCrimson do you know what a space ship is ?

[@presleymeck]

It doesn't justify a billion dollars

[@vimalramachandran]

@@presleymeck When it's a matter of life & death, more than a billion is justified.

[@Jogeta5]

Damn. Collins backed out.

[@nickchkheidze9189]

It's crazy that most of the tech we have today, cars, spacecraft, planes, tanks.. were all built in the past century. All the modern century added was the digital technology.

[@silentmajority8365]

And they got that from aliens

[@mudman6156]

Why is that crazy? It’s only 2023. Mankind wasn’t created just 23 years ago. Of course we use things designed from the last century. We’re still at the beginning of the following millennium. That digital technology…extremely significant. It created smart phones, navigation and safety systems for our vehicles, etc…, as well as vastly increased both the size and speed of the internet.

[@_Chad_ThunderCock]

@@silentmajority8365 what are you talking about?

[@_Chad_ThunderCock]

That digital technology is not to be underestimated. A lot of advance medical equipment, AI, logistics, simulations etc. knowledge is greatly advanced because of it.

[@nickchkheidze9189]

@@_Chad_ThunderCock Medicine maybe advanced, but we still don't have compound V

[@Dragonblaster1]

The Apollo lunar suits had a lifespan of about 27 hours due to the sharp dust from the regolith getting everywhere and tearing the suits up as the astronauts moved around. I hope that has been improved upon in the new suits.

[@battleoid2411]

I'd assume that's why they're developing a separate set of suits for the Artemis missions while the one in the video is meant for space walks on the ISS

[@santiagotutor2008]

The Nixon phone call was better then than the audio in the Virgin Galactic. They should revive that old technology.

[@matheussanthiago9685]

Believe me they have One of the things they did was to wire an external circuit to counter the negative charge of said regolith all over the suit

[@Morbpious]

Wow now the astronauts can touch rocks with more dexterity

[@VancouverCatDogLover]

3.5B dollar suit! I’d like to see someone wear that to the met gala! That’s some serious drip!

[@juliancrooks3031]

They need to standardized the space suits so they can be used in any spacecraft going to ISS and for space walks.

[@soleenzo893]

That's literally whta they're doing lol. Collins and Axiom will have to respect standards set by nasa for use on the ISS and beyond

[@McClarinJ]

The EVA suits would be unecessarily bulky for use en route.

[@bozhijak]

Break the suit down into modules. The one custom fit part would be the actual environmental suit the space-meat would be wearing. Not to mention much lighter to send up. The rest would be standardized hardware and be repairable onsite. Smaller parts could also be make onsite. Use that 3D printer(s) that's up there NOW.

[@xploration1437]

Just let SpaceX do it.

[@Epicurus0]

@@xploration1437 SpaceX have already done it. They'll be showcasing their EVA suits in July 2023 with the Polaris Dawn mission, with 1 doing a spacewalk in it & having the rest of the crew (3) in them in a depressurised Crew Dragon.

[@sureshmilton]

For the cost, this better give him Iron man powers to bring him back to earth

[@vasanthkumar-qg3ts]

Excited to see these preparations. Hats off to Team NASA🎉

[@ramusoder5411]

Nice diving suit! Just the fact that underwater there is pressure pushing in on the suit and in the space the air inside is pushing out. So a suit being able to work in both polarities is AMAZING :)

[@nosredep7873]

40iq comment

[@ramusoder5411]

@@nosredep7873 ;D

[@ramusoder5411]

@@nosredep7873 Please start doing math and estimate the forces on a spacesuit at approximately 3 yards of fabric with virtually zero pressure outside the suit and 10 psi inside the suit. I estimate 27 square foot of exposed suit surface area x 144 square inches per foot is about 3,888 square inches at ten psi pressure differential is about 38 thousand pounds of total force pushing outward . have You ever seen this force pushing outward on a suit during a spacewalk?

[@ThatCasualZach]

@@ramusoder5411 not to mention...temperatures

[@Neuxen]

I like the fact that a Spacesuit is literally a little spacestation just for you!

[@IIISentorIII]

not even close....

[@partypooper8198]

i like the fact people believe a suit takes longer to develop than an entire space station.

[@ElixirOfEuphoria]

​@@IIISentorIIIIt's pretty much right on the mark..

[@salimrandall]

So futuristic. I can’t believe how far the human race has come when it comes to space travel.

[@mcmarkmarkson7115]

For real? I hoped we would be way further? But as things currently stand, space travel will be nowhere even in 100 years. Governments are so corrupt you can just not finance any missions or outposts on some death planet like Mars or even the moon.

[@evernam993m8]

Not far, we still gain too little, because of political conflicts.........

[@itsresouling4117]

It’s all fake

[@salimrandall]

@@itsresouling4117 LOL of course it is fake. There is no space travel for humans. I’m just here breaking balls seeing who actually believes this silliness.

[@squallofthedai]

@@itsresouling4117: Doofus comment, we have crap CGI now, but you think that was well done enough to fake space travel. Get out of here with that idiocy and take it to 4Chan where it belongs, oof.

[@JoeyBoBoey]

Well we knew they wouldn’t be cool looking, back pack looks alright at least

[@CreatureOfH4bit]

Designing a proper "normal suit" is going to be key to survival in space outside of our magnetic field.

[@curedham2963]

15,000 components in the suit? That’s INSANE!

[@EchoesDistant]

Think of it less as a suit and more a literal space ship. Because, that's what it is. Space is hard.

[@Red-Check-Mark]

​@@EchoesDistantAnd basically pointless to explore.

[@SamIIs]

New suits need to be designed for manufacturing not only here on Earth, but easily in space or on another planet.

[@Brian-tn4cd]

They did talk about that with a company designing a 3D printed suit, and given its for extraterrestrial crew that's them covered

[@partypooper8198]

lol yea we cant even grow plants in space im sure a next generation, space suit factory will be EZPZ....

[@dm9837]

Really weird that people in the comments seem to think it's NASA's job to solve homelessness. Lmao

[@Dough30i22]

Good lord 3.5 billion dollars!! Jesus what that made of...🤯🤯🤯

[@chidalunwaimo876]

Your taxes

[@DOSFS]

3.5bn for two suits through 2034

[@nickgibb4687]

balloon material we recycled

[@tinhinnh]

Even the last two powerball winners combined couldnt afford this

[@visionentertainment8006]

Deception

[@sinatra7407]

SpaceX suits look super.

[@ThisNoName]

Don't think that's capable for space walk, but guess they have plenty on their hands for another misley suit

[@sfguzmani]

@@ThisNoName but at the moment they are also making their own private eva suits.

[@Thetatruth]

Diving suits

[@carholic-sz3qv]

This is not something they spacex even comes close to compete with lol!!!! Get your informations very right!

[@carholic-sz3qv]

@@sfguzmani lol!! 😅

[@fitybux4664]

7:18 Wow, this is almost never done with government contracting. When a company wins the contract, they used to keep everything proprietary and closed, so that no new competitor can ever submit competing bids. (Such as with military contracting.)

[@planetsec9]

Well so much for that

[@maulcun]

More videos like this! I really enjoy this topic.

[@klijnsmitguitars2979]

Thats a lovely diving suit for the green screen swimmingpool with the ISS in it.

[@rafaeltorres2886]

3.5 Billion that's absurd.

[@leestewart72]

That's NASA.

[@hawkdsl]

The two of you haven't heard of the F35...

[@Poepopdestoep]

3.5 billion spread over 15 years with 100's of people working on it. It looks like a lot of money (it is) but you have to see it in context. There's only a few compagnies on earth who can make this stuff. It's not mass production.

[@M.Montgomery]

Money laundering scheme as the of the space program

[@ANYC-VN]

Nasa: spend 3.5 bil dollar on a new space suit That one indian with 36 subscribers: HOLD MY CURRY

[@rolfw2336]

The Collins suit looks great! I hope it can be tested on ISS sooner than 2026 :) How about adding a GoPro mount on the helmet?

[@RealRyanFlynn]

There is a plan to add external cameras to the helmet so the mission controllers can see what the astronaut sees and even if the helmet fogs, someone can guide them over the radio.

[@apair4002]

@@RealRyanFlynn They should start decades ago. A lot of incident caught on camera since the beginning of CCTV. In harsh environment like working on ISS, 100% they should get cam to monitor their safety.

[@GiesbertNijhuis]

And then while in the spacesuit, you got tearing eyes for some reason, next you discover there is no way to clean your eyes and that you can see almost nothing, do almost nothing. I have this every day, being almost completely paralyzed.

[@asoka7752]

or if your butt itchy.

[@PURENT]

A windshield wiper for your eyes like the headlights of old Mercs.

[@Thegamercat420]

Giving astronauts the ability to build their own space suits would be amazing .

[@mcmarkmarkson7115]

Anything is better than wasting 3.5 billion on a frigging space suit. What's the spacecraft gonna cost 20 trillion? Nasa needs more competition asap.

[@spotlizard0374]

@@mcmarkmarkson7115 Up to 3.5 bullion by 2034. It's not like they're spending this for one suit, it's for the development of multiple different ones over a decade.

[@hydromic2518]

@@mcmarkmarkson7115 NASA’s budget isn’t even $30 billion

[@mcmarkmarkson7115]

@@hydromic2518 So the suit is over 10% of the entire Nasa budget

[@hydromic2518]

@@mcmarkmarkson7115 no because it’s payed over a period of time iirc. It only gets a small bit of the budget each year. I might be wrong tho

[@vanessajones4016]

Was this suit pressurized during this demonstration? That definitely changes mobility . Completely understandable to only demonstrate as a concept but not a true comparison or proof of concept otherwise.

[@nicolajohnson1887]

I had no idea that the current suits had a water circulating as part of the suits function, that was surprising.

[@wildlifewarrior2670]

Space is very very cold Waters is circulated through the suits and heated to keep the astronauts warm out of space walks

[@Forty2de]

@@wildlifewarrior2670 No, it's actually the opposite. Space is a complete vacuum so there's no air that your body can get cooled by, there's nothing for your body heat to transfer to. The only way body heat can dissipate is through thermal radiation which is very slow. The water is there to keep your body cool, otherwise your own body heat would build up faster than it could radiate away and you'd be cooked by your own body heat.

[@Argoon1981]

@@wildlifewarrior2670 just to add, space is extremely cold and extremely hot at the same time, all depends if you are on the shade or not.

[@Argoon1981]

I don't think that is a feature of current EVA suits alone, water/coolant circulation system should exist since the Apollo Moon suits, perhaps even earlier.

[@thenumber1christian]

I would love to see the cost breakdown. 😅

[@muzikgod]

What's stopping you from doing a simple web search?

[@studentcopyofburgerking8108]

@@muzikgod That would be me

[@Thetatruth]

100% stolen money

[@Kraken9911]

​@@studentcopyofburgerking8108Stop right there cost breakdown googling scum!

[@Rmi_brandito]

Charging the taxpayer like it’s hospital bill, I bet spacex can satisfy the contract requirements while cutting cost in half.

[@ShawnMeira]

Definitely needs more improvement but looks good so far!

[@frankjames7272]

Thats what I thought too . 🙄

[@user-eh9jo9ep5r]

Wow , this cool. NASA need to plan when new apdates already after this updates for space suite :) Never seen new space suits from NASA before

[@gregnulik1975]

Astronaut suits have had static buildup issues for decades. Could they add something to the suits to use that static electricity to repel dust gently ?

[@soleenzo893]

They are indeed working on such powered anti static systems. the designs are just not final yet. we'll know more when the suits get updated for use on the moon rather than orbit

[@gregnulik1975]

@@soleenzo893 thank you.

[@dansiegel995]

To my understanding, this is the MOST expensive part of the new suit contract, and the one causing the most delays (the suit delays will delay the next moon landing, not the SLS or hopefully SpaceX's lander). The old suits worked FINE for the LEO mission requirements of the last 40 years - they simply were old...and the same exact design could have been re-used for ISS EVAs. The big challenge is lunar regolith, and that's why they needed to redesign the suits in the first place (ok, better mobility was slightly more useful as well, but not critical). However, Apollo 15's record lunar EVA time, ended up with the suits having multiple punctures and rips, due to the regolith...and that was 18 hours of use. NASA's new requirements for these suits are 100 EVA hours, which is requiring the anti-dust system which is the #1 contributor to the rapid degradation of the suit while on lunar EVA. The new suits will probably work for thousands of hours at 450km earth LEO.

[@FrankyPi]

@@dansiegel995 Apollo 17 spent the longest time not 15.

[@Epicurus0]

@@gregnulik1975 Hey Greg, this is currently being developed - learn more here kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZpycqHypgLCap9E

[@alcrt6630]

Lack of funding??? Mind you they are not producing the first ever suit and it’s test beds, facilitates etc. that’s all ready in place. They are only improving the ones we have. So forget 3.5 billion or 1 billion even $421 million sounds excessive.

[@jarrodmagnusson4101]

You also thank NASA for why we are in more debt and crazy inflation. It's a dumpster fire.

[@dudermcdudeface3674]

Being in an EVA suit out in space is the only time you could get to experience both claustrophobia and agoraphobia at the exact same time.

[@Yvaelle]

And I'd imagine the darkness and void of space, and the depth between you and the Earth, probably feels a lot like Thalassophobia.

[@travis-nk8wf]

This guy reddits^

[@mikefitz2124]

Those will be perfect for floating around the space station

[@ConswaMcGaga]

The more I learn about space travel the more I realize how little I actually know about it.

[@kristopherleslie8343]

I always felt they need a auxiliary unit to follow astronauts like a drone that can help in providing oxygen and fuel etc

[@speedy01247]

honestly a proper space functional drone could be more useful then an astronaut in a space suit. it depends on the situation, but a drone could have superior dexterity then an astronaut in a suit.

[@kristopherleslie8343]

@@speedy01247 i agree. I forgot the name of the movie maybe it’s just Mars but they had a drone dog which was multifunctional but I’m thinking add it to a platform as well so you could provide emergency resources

[@clayel1]

yea this wouldn’t work for several reasons - im guessing for the drone you’re talking about mars, so you’d need a very fast spinning propeller, if you want to bring along a life support system the propeller would have to go nuts - any servicing to be done on the iss can really only be done by human shaped beings, and a robot human would be much more expensive then just a human in a space suit - robot dog could technically work if it could be developed on another planets, (would be way too heavy to send via rocket) but we’re well over 100 years out from that

[@kristopherleslie8343]

@@clayel1 no actually the idea of a flying drone like that isn’t on my mind. It’s a bad use case.

[@kristopherleslie8343]

@@clayel1 you could build the dog with a 3D printer which probably half of the things there would be

[@cappybenton]

Nice video. But why exactly is it taking so long and costing a $1 billion.

[@mahfujkadir8973]

Its always like that when a public service gets contracted, things always increase in price by alot

[@jarrodmagnusson4101]

The space suits neil armstrong wore cost $200.00 bucks at most and still they managed to land on the moon. Crazy times we are living in.

[@enadegheeghaghe6369]

@@jarrodmagnusson4101 the individual suit costs 200,000, but the research, development and testing programme that created those suits cost a lot more than that.

[@visionentertainment8006]

Stalling tactics. Been doing it for years. Still considering whether they should fake it.

[@elcamalion8217]

3.5 billion

[@pakalepapita5008]

Nice underwater swim suit. I am definitely going to buy it.

[@thestrangecrisismalachi4121]

Awesome NASA keep going 👏

[@thestrangecrisismalachi4121]

@whatapp149 uuuuuu, what do you want me to say?

[@visionentertainment8006]

😂

[@favesongslist]

I am also looking forward to seeing SpaceX's new EVA suit tested in Space hopefully soon(July 2023) on the first Polaris Dawn mission, on an updated Dragon Capsule, to fly Astronauts to space walk. It will be the farthest human mission from Earth since the final Apollo 17 Moon mission in Dec 1972.

[@vinialves7062]

The last phrase is just false. Stop spreading misinformation.

[@andycanfixit]

@@vinialves7062 It isn't false, for LEO Gemini 11 holds the altitude record of 1371km. Polaris Dawn is aiming for 1400km. The only flights farther than that were the Apollo moon missions. No shuttle launch has been above 621km and the highest crewed Soyuz missions were 475km. So if Polaris Dawn hits the orbit they are aiming for they will set an altitude record for an LEO flight and be farther from earth than anyone has been since Apollo.

[@favesongslist]

@@andycanfixit Exactly TY, Vini Alves appears very anti SpaceX, also having an EVA suit in development.

[@clayel1]

theres a reason we dont go that high, at 1000 km you’re getting closer to the van allen belts, which you definitely cannot stay in for awhile

[@andycanfixit]

@@clayel1 The plan is to only be there for a short while for them to get the experiment data they are looking for, so I don't think they plan to be there for very long.

[@Celeon999A]

Collins suit seems to be a true leap forward regarding overall agility. But it seems to me that the wearer is still depended on help by at least one other person when putting it on. This decade old issue finally needs to be overcome or it will cost lives sooner or later.

[@Argoon1981]

With the current known tech IMO you will never have a real space suit that a astronaut can put alone.

[@gishee18]

how

[@theodoreroberts3407]

Now I know what I want for Christmas!

[@TheRunoben]

I don’t I actually actually want something that looks cool

[@thunghiempenicilliumchryso933]

So basically, these suites are "the 70s' design" with newer parts? 😄

[@wildlifewarrior2670]

And how is that supposed to be funny

[@joestarr11]

They need to take those things on a hike to see how well they really work

[@favesongslist]

Exactly, Next mouth (March 2023) SpaceX will do the first Spacewalk of their new EVA Space suit. ALL four 'Polaris Dawn' astronauts will be testing them at the same time.

[@vinialves7062]

​@@favesongslistSpaceX doesn't have an EVA suit.

[@favesongslist]

@@vinialves7062 SpaceX 'Polaris Dawn' mission coming up in July will include a spacewalk, by definition this requires use of an EVA suit, currently being made by SpaceX.

[@frankjames7272]

​@cottonheadedninnymuggins1853or scratch your ballsack while holding the remote in on hand

[@radicalrick9587]

*Unbelievably, this whole project may cost about $2 to $4 hundred million at the most. The rest of the money is going into a few people's pockets.* *Give the project to SpaceX and they'll do the same project for about $40 million.* *Someone needs to send in an outside accountant to check their books. I'm sure they will find a lot of book cooking going on.*

[@enadegheeghaghe6369]

Hahahaha 40 million? Did you just pull that number out of your ass? Do you have any actual evidence to back up that claim?

[@baklava6138]

💯 agree

[@marcusjackman1487]

Glad we're spending money and resources on improving life on our planet.

[@paulp8739]

3.5B for this? Lack of funding, if this was private industry, the company would be out of business.

[@danielthompson3928]

Right, for all of the people saying that they do not get enough funding, they should remember that NASA never even tried to reuse anything apart from the suits it seems. They treated their rockets like celebrity clothing. Imagine throwing away your car after every use.

[@SLow-fb3qm]

These suits are incredibly complex. They have to handle massive temperature extremes.

[@chiquita683]

Filled with water in space or a pool?

[@grundewa]

In space

[@jaystarr6571]

Water? It has on board toilet?

[@visionentertainment8006]

​@@grundewa Surrreee.😂

[@gustavsidekick4836]

I bet spacex’s suit would/ will cost a fraction of that

[@andreyleonel255]

SpaceX's spacesuit is part of Musk's Mars plan, which, sadly, rarely comes up with significant outcomes. But SpaceX is making wonders with those Falcons experiments!

[@gustavsidekick4836]

@@andreyleonel255 your definitely not on the same page. The falcon experiments? You mean the cheapest and most reliable way to get stuff in to orbit?? Do mean those experiments

[@hydromic2518]

It depends. This suit costs a lot right now because the technology for it has to be developed and tested. Now the cost will just be for building it. It will be a similar thing with SpaceXs

[@lossless4129]

Woahhhh nice job Collins! This is awesome!

[@simonphoenix3789]

I wonder if we will ever get to a point where sci-fi spacesuit designs will become a reality. Or is it just not possible for spacesuits to be anything other than the bulky pressurized behemoths we are used to?

[@EchoesDistant]

Sci-Fi tends to be all form and no function.

[@Desperate4Freedom.]

On green screen all is possible. Good tax payers give 3.5b :))😂

[@Argoon1981]

For Mars perhaps some decades in the future but the Moon and in space no, not in the future I can personally predict, there's just no way to escape the fact that you need to keep 1 atmosphere of pressure inside the space suit and it needs to be tick and strong enough, to not burst by the inside pressure and also stop micro meteorites, dangerous as bullets, not to say you need to somehow keep the astronaut body at a regular temperature, or him/her will cook, in space and the Moon, in shade you are more or less at -200ºc and in the sun light, at more or less +200ºc and you can be in both states at the same time, part in the shade and part in the sun light, this is a huge discrepancy on temp the suit materials need to be crazy strong, all of this factors don't help in making a thin suit.

[@Erick-ev5zt]

I'd like to wear a Starcraft spacesuit in space and on Mars.

[@leons.kennedy6710]

Firebat.

[@jimv77]

After watching this....I guess I can look past my wife clothes shopping habits....

[@LEARNING-67]

😂 How have you been dealing with it "NOT LOOKING PAST"? 😂 Stole her left-over money or what? 😂

[@Crystal_Moon248]

I can see the SpaceX influence with the dark accents and streamlined look.

[@cyanidescourge]

Ah yes, 3 billion for a space suit. That's what I like to hear

[@donntabale2054]

If am not mistaken the amount of around $3 billion is almost the same amount given by NASA to spaceX to build a rocket and capsule as replacement for the space shuttle to carry cargo and human to and from the ISS, i just cant imagine how expensive that space suit, imo they should ask spaceX to create one and compare with this including the cost of production....

[@gameroy41297]

SpaceX makes their own pressure suit for trips to/ from ISS already, and are working on their own EVA suit.

[@manasrayadurg]

A spacesuit is basically a personal spacecraft. They need to remain pressurized, protect from radiation, supply air/scrub carbon dioxide etc just as well as a spacecraft needs to.

[@clayel1]

@@gameroy41297 pressure suits are easy, and spacex’s eva suits will be connected to crew dragon via a cord, so not really that great

[@krac3x438]

$3.5B is just a complete joke

[@doctordan1668]

Was hoping they would mention the SpaceX suits for comparison

[@darer7158]

NASA’s current funding structure is just absurd. It should have long-term, stable funding so they can keep realistic goals and ACTUALLY ACHIEVE THEM

[@soleenzo893]

Tell that to american voters lol

[@arvont1]

@@soleenzo893 American voters actually have very little say over what NASA does. These funding decisions are typically made by unelected officials and industry leaders, and then approved by Congress in a big block of grants / funding approvals.

[@clayel1]

this is long-term? its a contract to develop and make modern spacesuits

[@xstaticelite1640]

Welp

[@Vsor]

Welp indeed.

[@eduardosanchez7792]

In a country where alot of people live below the poverty line and there's no money for environmental cleanup disasters I'm glad to hear there's a billion dollar space suit

[@dudedog884]

In addition to the billions and billions and billions of dollars going to that corrupt Neo-Nazi president in Ukraine.

[@Philitron128]

@@dudedog884 Your brain has been melted by Russian propaganda. Zelensky is Jewish... Putin is a fascist. Putin already showed that he has plans to invade Moldova, Georgia AND also has plans to annex Belarus.

[@bellenvideo5629]

At nasa work more animators than in Hollywood. Van allen belt. Nobody leaves 😂

[@billferner6741]

The suite looks flexible in ordinary ambient pressure. However does it the same in vacuum, when it is pressurized like a balloon? The first Soviet spacewalk have had a big problem at that time.

[@神林しマイケル]

What's the point of testing it when it is not pressurized? Don't you see the cable behind the space suit when he was testing it??

[@billferner6741]

@神林しマイケル I would call it 'ventilated', not pressurized. In vacuum the suite has overpressure against surrounding.

[@JonGretarB]

They are pretty rigid.

[@damionkeeling3103]

Give Collins Aerospace a call, you've discovered something they overlooked.

[@billferner6741]

@Damion Keeling so, you have no other arguments than attacking the person? Poor liberal. If you had a bit of understanding physics, you would have understood what my comment means.

[@goham5481]

3.5 Billion! I get it space is crazy and u need the proper equipment but 3.5 billion.

[@pipedreamsz]

3.5 billion over the course of 11 years. not 3.5 billion every year. That's only about 318.2 million every year. Technically speaking though, most of this money will go into R&D for the suits themselves which you know, keeps people alive. Well worth the cost, if not more I think. That's not actually that much money when speaking of industry costs and development though. You could probably squeeze a bit more out of the government if this weren't all riding on being at the mercy of political agendas

[@andrewbullman5206]

​@@pipedreamsz was already fully developed by 1969!if you are gullible enough to believe anything they tell you...

[@VolcanoQueen]

really angers me on how our own government neglects the space program, a real shame

[@presleymeck]

So 20 billion dollars a year is not enough that's what you're saying lmao wow

[@VolcanoQueen]

@pres yes, that's really not enough, during NASA's golden age they had triple of the budget they have now, if Nasa had that same budget, we would have been on Mars 2 years ago, he'll we would have been an interplanetary species by now if they had the same budget

[@Epicurus0]

@@presleymeck No, it's not. You have no idea how much money is needed for these projects lmao

[@presleymeck]

@@VolcanoQueen NASAs peek budget only lasted for a year or 2... So your telling me reserving 1/3 of that budget EVERY YEAR from 1970 for the past 60 YEARS they couldn't send back a man to the moon? They literally still had the same technology which sent the first people so what happened to it? And you say we would be "interplanetary" whilst NASA has to ask SpaceX a private company for help 😂😂😂 Do you even hear your self?

[@presleymeck]

@@Epicurus0 it's easy to get an idea how much money is required for these projects when you compare to other countries similar projects. NASA is not the only space company on the planet nor the first one.

[@smulkerz4748]

Technology has come so far from the original suit, I’m absolutely floored 🤭

[@CA97587]

This is a joke, I understand there is intelligence involved in making it real but 3.5 billion that is a joke

[@superfluous5162]

That a RnD cost , it includes material research , electronic , experimentation, peering and publish . Summarizing the research doesn't reduce methodology .

[@kidrobot.]

i would pay $100 max for a cool looking halloween costume like this

[@LaggyWizard]

Just let Elon and SpaceX handle it. They'll have a working design in half the time and probly half the cost. It'll look good too

[@favesongslist]

SpaceX's new EVA suit will be tested in Space hopefully next month (March 2023) on the first Polaris Dawn mission, using a updated Dragon Capsule, to enable Astronauts to space walk. It will be the farthest human mission from Earth since the final Apollo 17 Moon mission in Dec 1972.

[@SquaredCircIe]

Good thing rappers haven't found out this is the most expensive suit cuz they'll be rapping in these

[@docholiday5119]

Pretty cool suit. Shame we can't get past the firmament

[@SmileTribeNetwork]

There are man made objects that have left the solar system

[@docholiday5119]

@@SmileTribeNetwork such as? And like I said, if we can get past the firmament.

[@Callibree]

Lol! I hope its water proof 😂 maybe they’ll won’t forget to delete the scuba diver’s reflection on the visor whilst in “space” 🤣 in the next cgi video.