‘Moonwalking’ spacesuits for NASA’s Artemis III mission will be built by Axiom Space
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A photo illustration of Axiom Space's space suit | Image: Axiom Space NASA is already packing for its next Moon landing, and it's ordering some new spacesuits for the trip. It has awarded a $228.5 million contract to Axiom Space to make a moonwalking system" for the agency's return trip to the lunar surface, NASA announced Wednesday.
Axiom was one of two companies in the running to make spacesuits for NASA's Artemis program, which is aiming to send astronauts back to the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years. NASA already has a limited supply of spacesuits for use on the International Space Station, but lunar spacesuits will have to be very different. In addition to extreme temperature swings, they'll have to contend with the Moon's gravity and the notoriously problematic lunar dust that has a...