NASA’s Next-Generation Spacesuits - A Behind-The-Scenes Look
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- 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
Post-production Support: Katie Tarasov, Erin Black
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NASA’s Next-Generation Spacesuits - A Behind-The-Scenes Look
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.
forealllllllll bro
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.
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..
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
The new ones look fine too.
Worked for Collins Aerospace for 14 years… feeling proud to see the name on the suit
@Shadow Filip The company was called Rockwell Collins which was bought over by Raytheon and renamed to Collins Aerospace…..Do some research!
@Shadow Filip Rockwell Collins was founded in 2001 as a result of another acquisition
I’m guessing you didn’t see any of that 3 billion dollars. Am I right?
Are you from Maharashtra?
Isha G good work. Aap ab kaha kam karte ho?
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
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.
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
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
Why do you want to bring attention to this failure? 4.5 billion dollars and no suit to bring attention to yet.
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
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.
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.
And a place to poo also!
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Excited to see these preparations. Hats off to Team NASA🎉
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.
Space suits are basically space ships with a human shape, it's amaizing
I'd classify it more as a mobile habitat, than a spaceship tbh.
Right! And its not the journey into space that is important. Its the
friends we meet along the way
@@ProjectRealityV1they usually come with some sort of EVA though
@@frankjames7272Until they probe u 💀
@@BisexualPlagueDoctor Yeah.. it's an EVA suit lmao. That doesn't make it a spaceship
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.
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.
Well this one has a back flap to probe Uranus
hsha dont be stupid everyone knows laundry money
@@silentmajority8365 i hope that feature fits in the budget
Nasa is racist
These suits look awesome. I can’t imagine how much this’ll improve EVA efficiency and ingress/egress.
man that 4ss is massive
NASA makes the suit for 4 mill. 3.5 billion is the Nordstrom markup.
It's all jokes with you guys
Thanks captain obvious.
Nah. It's all scam
@@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.
@@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.
Once we get some of these specific parts made, it’s gonna be much easier to adapt these suits to more complex missions.
Indeed just like everything else when it comes out, people adapt to it, and be much easier to make
Woahhhh nice job Collins! This is awesome!
Worth every penny. This will reap rewards for many generations!
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.
Axiom got $228 million and Collins just $98 million. And they saying the suits are similar. Uh?
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.
@@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.
@@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.
@@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
Great to see Collins and Axiom pulling through. Imagine going to space only to almost be drowned by a failing space suit 😱
Now I know what I want for Christmas!
Great info.
More videos like this! I really enjoy this topic.
The original suits are iconic but these new ones are long overdue
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?
Cool yes, but that’s such a large increase in complexity required. Production, maintenance, and repairs….
@@AC-be5gu More excuses. They didnt make excuses back in the 60s when they put a man on the moon.
Thanks
Very interesting thank you for covering this area .
Near Uranus
I like the fact that a Spacesuit is literally a little spacestation just for you!
not even close....
i like the fact people believe a suit takes longer to develop than an entire space station.
@@IIISentorIIIIt's pretty much right on the mark..
nicely done
Getting to test out spacesuits would be a fantastic job!!!
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.
@@favesongslist when exactly? it's march
@@partypooper8198 The Polaris Dawn flight to test the EVA suits has been delayed until July.
@@favesongslist figures..
Use a human in a space, Moon or Mars suit under actual environmental conditions they’d be exposed to? Too dangerous on Earth.
Looks more flexible than the old moon suits. But not very much.
It didn’t look to be pressurised.
Every EVA suit looks flexible when its unpressurised here on earth, we will see how it will be in vacum
Well... We shall see once we get back, maybe we will see them fly on *Dear Moon*
Without a "Hard Suit" the air pressure in the suit will fight all movements, even the fingers.
@@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.🤪
THIS IS SO SICK 💖💖
*Looking forward to buy it*
3.5 billion dollars is how much SpaceX is paying to develop the entire Starship program.
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.
@@szymonszczykowski9027 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.
@@szymonszczykowski9027 no he doesn’t understand and you don’t either lolol 😂
anything can be done nasa is just burning money in wrong direction
LOL
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The guy taking about making a machine to make spacesuits very creative that’s what we need creative thinking
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣Covid proof?
Yeah they’ll cover it in surgical masks no problem
3.5B dollar suit! I’d like to see someone wear that to the met gala! That’s some serious drip!
Thats a lovely diving suit for the green screen swimmingpool with the ISS in it.
New suit looks amazing
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.
Yeah, its way more complicated than the laypeople know
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.
Every microchip, resister, plug, wire, screw, bolt, nut, fabric panel, yada, yada...... It quickly adds up.
The suit is basically a space craft not a suit. Super complicated bits of kit.
@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.
Nice tux
Those will be perfect for floating around the space station
I love this. Every space agency is literally our future I appreciate the hell out of them!
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.
and broke !
Remember this mission? How does one explain finger holes, in space, in a pressurized space suite?
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@@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.
@@SynthwavelLover Space exploration has always made life easier for humans, a lot of technology we have everyday use today came from NASA.
Wow now the astronauts can touch rocks with more dexterity
Wow!
I like it really cool and not scary or overwhelming looking
Give NASA more money.
Space exploration is something that has the potential to uplift our entire civilization.
This video makes it clear that the private sector is the only one making progress here without burning through billions.
The development of spacesuits is much more complicated than I initially imagined.
Its basically a mini-spaceship.
@@ToneyCrimson True
@@ToneyCrimson do you know what a space ship is ?
It doesn't justify a billion dollars
@@presleymeck When it's a matter of life & death, more than a billion is justified.
Nice underwater swim suit. I am definitely going to buy it.
We are getting closer like really, really close of having refine futuristic model of technology
For the cost, this better give him Iron man powers to bring him back to earth
They need to standardized the space suits so they can be used in any spacecraft going to ISS and for space walks.
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
The EVA suits would be unecessarily bulky for use en route.
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.
Just let SpaceX do it.
@@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.
Way to go Collins Aerospace
glad to see this … always blew my mind how the suits never really changed from original
I hope this happens it would be great to see maybe a similar space suit when we go to Mars in over 10 years
Niga they can’t even get 2 the moon
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.
10, more like 200
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.
Robots are good enough for barren radiation soaked wastelands.
15,000 components in the suit? That’s INSANE!
Think of it less as a suit and more a literal space ship. Because, that's what it is. Space is hard.
@@EchoesDistantAnd basically pointless to explore.
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
How do the gimbals for waist or arm manage to rotate and maintain atmospheric sealing, or do they seal on entry and not move when in enviroment?
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.
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
The Nixon phone call was better then than the audio in the Virgin Galactic. They should revive that old technology.
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
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?
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.
@@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.
Nasa space suites are amazing 👏 🤩 😍 ♥️ comfortable cool looking perfect congratulations on your new design for spaceflight
Technology has come so far from the original suit, I’m absolutely floored 🤭
Awesome NASA keep going 👏
@@whatapp149 uuuuuu, what do you want me to say?
😂
Designing a proper "normal suit" is going to be key to survival in space outside of our magnetic field.
Deberian aprovechar y ponerlo propulsores en caso de emergencia poder utilizarlo para moverse en el espacio.
Was hoping they would mention the SpaceX suits for comparison
Definitely needs more improvement but looks good so far!
Thats what I thought too . 🙄
The more I learn about space travel the more I realize how little I actually know about it.
I can see the SpaceX influence with the dark accents and streamlined look.
Glad we're spending money and resources on improving life on our planet.
SpaceX suits look super.
Don't think that's capable for space walk, but guess they have plenty on their hands for another misley suit
@@ThisNoName but at the moment they are also making their own private eva suits.
Diving suits
This is not something they spacex even comes close to compete with lol!!!! Get your informations very right!
@@sfguzmani lol!! 😅
Is the design similar to that of the first spacesuits with the big bubble heads really the best solution? Or is aesthetics in mind?
Isn't the big bubble head so the pressure is equalized while giving the most peripheral vision?
We see lot more motion in upper area. But would they need to do different type for a plant landing or moon landing. Also wouldn't the new style of space units be better material to start bases off.
The suits kind of remind me of the first diving suits man made. Wonder what's it will be in 100-300 years.
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.)
3.5 Billion that's absurd.
That's NASA.
The two of you haven't heard of the F35...
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.
Money laundering scheme as the of the space program
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.
Well we knew they wouldn’t be cool looking, back pack looks alright at least
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.
And they got that from aliens
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.
@@silentmajority8365 what are you talking about?
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.
@@_Chad_ThunderCock Medicine maybe advanced, but we still don't have compound V
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 :)
40iq comment
@@nosredep7873 ;D
@@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?
@@ramusoder5411 not to mention...temperatures
Small gripe is that at 13:49 you had a rendering of someone using a laptop outside on presumably mars when it would die the moment u took it outside since pretty much all screens (especially lcd) would die in a vacuum.
How do you know that it’s an LCD display?
love the little shorts
I had no idea that the current suits had a water circulating as part of the suits function, that was surprising.
Space is very very cold Waters is circulated through the suits and heated to keep the astronauts warm out of space walks
@@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.
@@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.
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.
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.
You also thank NASA for why we are in more debt and crazy inflation. It's a dumpster fire.
I do this in Starfield all the time ❤
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.
With the current known tech IMO you will never have a real space suit that a astronaut can put alone.
how
New suits need to be designed for manufacturing not only here on Earth, but easily in space or on another planet.
They did talk about that with a company designing a 3D printed suit, and given its for extraterrestrial crew that's them covered
lol yea we cant even grow plants in space im sure a next generation, space suit factory will be EZPZ....
I would love to see the cost breakdown. 😅
What's stopping you from doing a simple web search?
@@muzikgod That would be me
100% stolen money
@@studentcopyofburgerking8108Stop right there cost breakdown googling scum!
Charging the taxpayer like it’s hospital bill, I bet spacex can satisfy the contract requirements while cutting cost in half.
I like this suit
"lack of funding" Good one.
Good lord 3.5 billion dollars!! Jesus what that made of...🤯🤯🤯
Your taxes
3.5bn for two suits through 2034
balloon material we recycled
Even the last two powerball winners combined couldnt afford this
Deception
For those of you guys wondering why they cost *so* much, it's because spacesuits are essentially tiny little spaceships. They have to hold pressure, protect our squishy little bodies from the vacuum of space, keep us from freezing or boiling, allow us to see and move around, allow us to connect to and power tools, allow us to breathe, and literally allow us to fly in space without any tethering. All this RnD just to build a few suits ends up costing a ton of money.
I bet if spacex give this contract a try they can achieve it and cut cost in half😒
@@Rmi_brandito
They could probably do it for a tenth or less. NASA isn't s space program. It's a jobs program.
@@Rmi_brandito 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@leestewart72 A jobs program that has a helicopter flying around Mars and a telescope in deep space that can see to the beginnings of the galaxy. Thats the most space related jobs program I’ve ever heard of
@@teamtoken
The telescope was more than $9 billion over budget, and 15 years late.
When NASA says they are lacking funds, you know how expensive things really are.
It has been a dream of mine to be an astronaught. Hopefully they make becoming an astronaught a much more easier process as time goes on.
Not bad, would love to see a sleeker more solid suit. These are great for space walking on the iss but idk how it’s gonna hold if we get to the moon and find hazards like sharp rocks
bro, a sharp rock it literally the last of their worries. really shows how little anyone in these comments knows about space and it's dangers to life.
Giving astronauts the ability to build their own space suits would be amazing .
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.
@@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.
@@mcmarkmarkson7115 NASA’s budget isn’t even $30 billion
@@hydromic2518 So the suit is over 10% of the entire Nasa budget
@@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
It look so good!! so where can i buy this?
Reminds me of the suits used in alien in 1979.
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.
And I'd imagine the darkness and void of space, and the depth between you and the Earth, probably feels a lot like Thalassophobia.
This guy reddits^
So futuristic. I can’t believe how far the human race has come when it comes to space travel.
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.
Not far, we still gain too little, because of political conflicts.........
It’s all fake
@@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.
@@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.
One size fits all
Looks better than the Axiom one.
It's really incredible when you learn more about our efforts in space how the majority of it all has honestly been weekend garage DIYers with about the bare minimum technology to help them at the time. As much money as people think is put into this stuff and to be fair it is a lot of money, it's still not nearly enough for these geniuses to do what they do at any given time in a truly efficient way.
I always felt they need a auxiliary unit to follow astronauts like a drone that can help in providing oxygen and fuel etc
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.
@@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
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
@@clayel1 no actually the idea of a flying drone like that isn’t on my mind. It’s a bad use case.
@@clayel1 you could build the dog with a 3D printer which probably half of the things there would be