NASA new EVA suits wrinkle

[darthgently]

NASA's Commercial Spacesuit Program hits major snag

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/06/nasas-commercial-spacesuit-program-just-hit-a-major-snag/

 

[Nuke]

four decades. i bet the smell isnt too good.

[darthgently]

6 minutes ago, Nuke said:

four decades. i bet the smell isnt too good.

I wonder if Febreze is actually a NASA spinoff like Velcro

[AckSed]

17 minutes ago, Nuke said:

Four decades. I bet the smell isn't too good.

They need to send a suit down to the Odour Panel. Yes, NASA has a department to smell things and non-metallic materials: History of NASA's Odor Assessment

[NFUN]

A wrinkle or a snag? The former I bet you can iron out, but if the snag causes a tear that'd be problrmatic

 

I hate Collins Aerospace with a burning passion so I'm selfishly OK with this news

[AckSed]

To go back to the topic, I'm surprised that the original suit-makers for Apollo are unable to deliver on-budget. I remember one literal high-flying rich guy asked them to build him a high-altitude suit... *searches*

Alan Eustace! He did a TED Talk about a high-altitude jump in 2014 about ILC Dover, not Collins, making him an environment suit that basically dangled him and the suit from a high-altitude balloon to avoid the mass of a capsule.

https://www.ilcdover.com/aerospace/spacesuits/

This proudly proclaims, "Anyone can try to make a spacesuit. Only ours have been to the moon." Oh-kay. But who's building the current suits?

*more searching*

It seems the turducken of mil-industrial goes like this:

RTX owns Rayethon, Collins and Pratt & Whitney

Collins subcontracted ILC Dover (Apollo suits) and Oceaneering (oil, gas, wind turbine platforms, ocean ROV and subs) to make the xEVA suits. Makes sense.

However, ILC Dover was recently bought out by Ingersoll Rand, who seem excited to use them and their equipment for their pharmaceuticals industries. Barely a peep about aerospace.

Edited June 26 by AckSed