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NASA’s commercial spacesuit program just hit a major snag (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 year ago by llamacoffee@lemmy.world to c/spaceflight@sh.itjust.works

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If NASA were to re-open competition, one of the bidders could be SpaceX, which has already designed a basic spacesuit to support the private Polaris Dawn mission.

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[–] burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago

The SpaceX ones are privately funded, so who cares if the first generation of them sucks? At least they're trying and might have a path to success.