Nasa Space Suit
It protects the astronaut from the dangers of being outside in space.
Nasa space suit. Nasa says it is building two xemu suits for the first planned trip to the moon in 2024. A spacesuit is more than clothes astronauts wear in space. A fully equipped spacesuit used during spacewalks is actually a miniature spaceship shaped like a human body that protects the astronaut from the dangers of being outside a vehicle while in space or on the moon.
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Meanwhile nasa personnel are getting a sense of how the new suit will perform on the moon by testing the design underwater in the massive neutral buoyancy laboratory pool at nasa s johnson space. After that the agency wants to hand production of the suit over to the commercial space industry.