Boeing Space Suit
The set of experimental materials at right was launched to the international space station on april 15 for testing.
Boeing space suit. At roughly half the weight about 10 pounds vs. The new suits were shown off for the first time this morning during a facebook live at boeing s facility at nasa s kennedy space center in florida. The new boeing blue spacesuits were designed to provide crew members with functionality comfort and protection.
Boeing starliner officially cst 100 starliner is a class of reusable crew capsules expected to transport crew to the international space station iss and to private space stations such as the proposed bigelow aerospace commercial space station. Its innovative layers will keep astronauts cooler as well. Astronauts will wear the suit throughout the launch and ascent into orbit as well as on the way back to earth.
It is manufactured by boeing for its participation in nasa s commercial crew program. The suits are covered in boeing s trademark blue. 20 pounds compared to the launch and entry suits worn by space shuttle astronauts crews look forward to wearing the boeing blue suits.
Commercial spacecraft such as our cst 100 starliner will open a market for tourism and manufacturing in low earth orbit while increasing research conducted on the iss. May 03 2019 in space at left boeing engineer kavya manyapu works with a prototype spacesuit during her research on a new material that will better shield astronauts from dust radiation and other hazards. Research underway on the international space station iss that we built and sustain is enabling humans and technology to operate in space for months at a time.
The overall look however is arguably a far cry from spacex s. Nasa astronaut eric boe wears boeing s new spacesuit designed to be worn by astronauts flying on the cst 100 starliner. The architecture of boeing s newly designed spacesuit combines the first hand experience of veteran astronaut chris ferguson with david clark co s decades of suit design development test and evaluation insight as the makers of more than a dozen air and space suits including those for gemini apollo and space shuttle missions.
The suit is lighter and more flexible than previous spacesuits but retains the ability to pressurize in an emergency. The starliner spacesuit provides greater pressurized mobility and is about 40 percent lighter than previous suits.