NASA is preparing to send its first manned mission to the moon for the first time since 1972 and it is doing so in quite some style. Texas startup, Axiom Space, the company selected by NASA to create the Extravehicular Activity Services spacesuits for the 2025 moon mission has decided to partner up with luxury Italian brand Prada to design them and include features that will protect astronauts against the challenge of space and the lunar environment.

"Prada's technical expertise with raw materials, manufacturing techniques, and innovative design concepts will bring advanced technologies instrumental in ensuring not only the comfort of astronauts on the lunar surface, but also the much-needed human factors considerations absent from legacy spacesuits," Axiom Space CEO Michael Suffredini said in a statement.

“The constantly forward-thinking ethos of Prada for humanity has broadened to his desire of adventure and to brave new horizons: space,” Bertelli said. " ... Our decades of experimentation, cutting-edge technology and design know-how — which started back in the '90s with Luna Rossa challenging for the America’s cup — will now be applied to the design of a spacesuit for the Artemis era. It is a true celebration of the power of human creativity and innovation to advance civilization.”

The Artemis III mission, slated for December 2025, will also include mission-critical contributions from Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Lockheed Martin and Airbus to design, build and manage the launch system, propulsion technologies and crew transport vehicle Orion. 

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Axiom said the AxEMU spacesuit "will provide astronauts with advanced capabilities for space exploration, while offering NASA commercially developed human systems needed to access, live and work on and around the Moon." "Using innovative technologies and design, these spacesuits will enable greater exploration of the lunar surface than ever before," Axiom's release states.

This mission is unique because it comes after 5 decades of Apollo 17 and also because this is also the first time that a woman (Christina Koch) and a person of colour will land on the moon.

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