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Wednesday, June 01, 2022

NASA Picks Next-Generation Spacesuit Suppliers for Moon Missions & Earth Orbit

NASA Picks Next-Generation Spacesuit Suppliers for Moon Missions & Earth Orbit

June 1, 2022: NASA held a news conference at the Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston to announce the companies selected to develop spacewalking systems under the Exploration Extravehicular Activity Services (xEVAS) contract. Vanessa Wyche, director of NASA Johnson; Lindsay Aitchison, program executive for EVA/HSM at NASA headquarters; Lara Kearney, manager of EVA/HSM at NASA Johnson; Dina Contella, operations integration manager of the International Space Station program at NASA Johnson; and vendor representatives from Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace offered remarks on the occasion and answered media questions. The next generation of spacesuits and spacewalking systems are a vital part of NASA’s deep space exploration plans.

Learn more about spacewalking at: https://nasa.gov/suitup


Credit: NASA Video

Duration: 58 minutes

Release Date: June 1, 2022


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