Elon Musk Won’t Send You Into Orbit Looking Frumpy
SpaceX realizes that design matters: It’s engineering a more fashionable spacesuit for future travelers to Mars
The current NASA spacesuit as seen from the International Space Station.
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SpaceX has grand ambitions of commercial missions to the moon and to Mars. In the process, the company wants its future travelers’ spacesuits to be not just safe, but also snappy.
“We are putting a lot of effort into design aesthetics, not just utility,” SpaceX founder and Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said of the suit on Jan. 5 in a Reddit “ask me anything” session. “It needs to both look like a 21st century spacesuit and work well. Really difficult to achieve both.”