Prada will assist design the spacesuits for NASA’s 2025 Artemis III mission

NASA is planning its first crewed mission to the moon since Apollo 17’s 1972 journey, and it is doing so in model. Axiom House — the corporate NASA selected final 12 months to create the Extravehicular Exercise Providers (xEVAS) spacesuits for 2025’s Artemis III mission — has introduced it is partnering with luxurious Italian model Prada to design them.

The 2 corporations will work aspect by aspect all through manufacturing. “Prada’s technical experience with uncooked supplies, manufacturing strategies, and revolutionary design ideas will carry superior applied sciences instrumental in guaranteeing not solely the consolation of astronauts on the lunar floor, but additionally the much-needed human components issues absent from legacy spacesuits,” Axiom House CEO Michael Suffredini mentioned in an announcement.

Prada Group advertising and marketing director Lorenzo Bertelli added, “It’s a true celebration of the facility of human creativity and innovation to advance civilization.” He additionally credited the corporate’s “cutting-edge” work to many years of expertise with its Luna Rossa Prada crusing crew.

The Artemis III mission is exclusive not solely due to the 5 many years since Apollo 17 however as a result of it is the primary time a girl or individual of shade will go to the moon, astronauts Christina Koch and Victor Glover. Curiously, Koch’s position within the mission is acknowledged early on in Axiom House’s launch, seemingly making a subtext that the presence of a girl (learn: an achieved, skilled astronaut) is important to justify teaming up with a luxurious designer.