#372: Spacesuits!

Ryan Scirocco is the spacesuit business development lead at Collins Aerospace. Collins, an RTX business, is, along with its partners ILC Dover and Oceaneering, developing a new generation of spacesuits for NASA. Ryan discusses everything that goes into keeping people alive in a freezing zero-gravity vacuum far outside the biosphere. Topics include: A spacesuit is a mini-spaceship Space: it wants to kill you Spacesuit history What’s new? No more mirrors! Testing spacesuits on the vomit comet The ISS, the Moon, and beyond Links: Collins Aerospace Completes Key Spacesuit Testing Milestone Space Symposium Tech Policy Podcast #349: The State of Space Exploration