The companies confirmed it through an official statement. The fashion house’s engineers will collaborate with the Axiom Space team throughout the design process.
For the first time, a Italian luxury fashion house and one space company they come together to design space suits that will be used in the Artemis III mission of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)planned for 2025. Prada engineers are working together Axion Space in creating the new generation of outfits they will wear in Moonas announced by both companies in a official statement.
“Decades of experimentation, cutting-edge technology and design know-how, starting in the 1990s with the ‘Luna Rossa’ (sailing) team competing in the America Cupwill now be applied to the design of a Space suit“, commented the director of Prada Group marketing, Lorenzo Bertelli, in the statement.
The CEO of Axiom Space, Michael Suffredinialso celebrated the collaboration for “the Prada technical expertise with raw materials, manufacturing techniques and manufacturing concepts. innovative design“.
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“This will provide advanced technologies that will be fundamental to guarantee not only the astronaut comfort on the lunar surface but also other necessary considerations absent in the costumes of the past“he added.
The Prada engineers will collaborate with Axiom Space team during all the design process “developing solutions for materials and features” to protect astronauts from the “unique challenge of space” and the lunar environment.
NASA Artemis III Mission
The US agency is already planning the Artemis III missionwhich will take place one year after Artemis IIand its objective is for a group of astronauts to land on the south pole of the Moon.
“Our plan was always to 12 monthsbut there are important developments that must be made,” he warned Jim Freeadministrator associated with the POTduring a press conference when he was asked about the mission for the 2025. In turn, he clarified that “they need a moon landing” and? “they will need their suits”in reference to the relevant space clothing to carry out an exploration on the surface of the Earth’s natural satellite.
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The astronauts who will be on the expedition have already been selectedis about:
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Christina Hammock Koch (Crew member): He has been a NASA astronaut since 2013, he has numerous recognitions in his field such as the Neil Armstrong Award for Excellence or the Congressional Medal for Antarctic Service. She will be the first woman on a lunar mission and she already has the record for being the woman with the greatest number of consecutive days in space (328).
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Jeremy Roger Hansen (Crew member): He will be the first Canadian on a lunar mission. He was awarded the Diamond Jubilee Medal from Queen Elizabeth II in 2012.
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Victor J. Glover, Jr. (Pilot): NASA astronaut since 2013. He will be the first person of African descent to carry out a lunar mission. Among his distinctions, Glover has the Defense Superior Service Medal or the NASA Distinguished Service Medal.
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G. Reid Wiseman (Commander): NASA astronaut since 2009, has several medals for distinction in the military field.
Source: Ambito
