{"id":47811,"date":"2024-10-01T23:31:42","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T23:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsgf.greenschoolsgreenfuture.org\/?p=47811"},"modified":"2025-01-18T20:36:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T20:36:31","slug":"why-the-spacex-space-suit-look-so-sleek-and-nasas-look-so-clunky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsgf.greenschoolsgreenfuture.org\/fr\/why-the-spacex-space-suit-look-so-sleek-and-nasas-look-so-clunky\/","title":{"rendered":"Why SpaceX Suits Look So Sleek, and NASA\u2019s Look So Clunky"},"content":{"rendered":"

[<\/strong>Photo: NASA, SpaceX<\/strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n

The space suits worn during SpaceX\u2019s Polaris Dawn mission are a sci-fi reimagining of NASA\u2019s classic marshmallow suits. There\u2019s a good reason why they look so different.<\/p>\n

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When Jared Isaacman popped out of the hatch of the Dragon spaceship\u00a0Resilience<\/em>\u00a0and into the vacuum of space, he really looked pretty spiffy. For the first time in history, a private citizen got (partly) out of a spaceship with nothing between him and our Pale Blue Dot but a sleek, tightly fitting white spacesuit. It wasn\u2019t a space walk\u2014like the one\u00a0Alexei Leonov took on March 18, 1965,<\/a>\u00a0the first-ever by a human\u2014as much as a \u201dlean out and peek,\u201d but he looked like a guy from a sci-fi movie nonetheless.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Everyone who saw it probably thought the same: That suit looks nothing like the ones NASA astronauts use when venturing out of the International Space Station. The SpaceX Extra-Vehicular Activity (EVA) space overalls looks like the future. NASA\u2019s Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) feels old and outdated\u2014like an oversize relic from the 1980s.<\/p>\n

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