2024-10-18 02:27:00
High fashion will reach the Moon. Yes, before many other things, fashion will make its foray into the space after it was announced The Italian luxury house Prada will design the suits in which NASA astronauts will return to the satellite in the Artemis III mission.
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The announcement couldn’t be anywhere else: Milan, where develops the Astronautics Congress. There, the aerospace company Axiom, a NASA contractor, confirmed that the Italian company will dress the astronauts In 2026 they will explore the satellite’s south pole.
The cause is officially called AxEMU (Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit) and is designed to carry out “extravehicular” activities, i.e. outside the ship.
“We broke the mold. The Axiom Space-Prada partnership has established a fundamental new model for cross-industry collaboration, further expanding what is possible in the commercial space,” Axiom Space President Matt Ondler indicated during the October 16 presentation.
“This is an innovative partnership,” stated, for his part, the executive vice president of Axiom Space, Russel Ralston, “we are combining engineering, science and art”he added.
The tracksuit, white in color and with gray patches on the elbows and knees, has no Prada logos; However, the design includes red lines on the sleeves, waist and “portable suitcases,” which would allude to Prada Linea Rossa, one of its most famous lines.
The white material of the suit, the Axiom Space-Prada partnership underlined in a note, is capable of doing this reflect heat, offering protection against “extreme temperatures at the lunar south pole” and will withstand extreme cold in “permanently shadowed regions for at least two hours.”
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The dress is adaptable to different sizes and physiognomiesas it was created so that both women and men can use it thanks to the sewing techniques, which helped “bridge the gap” between functionality and style, according to the statement.
The boots of AxEMUfor their part, they will allow it astronauts conduct spacewalks for at least eight hours a day.
While Axiom won a contract with NASA to work on suits in 2022the aerospace company and the Italian fashion house have been working on the project since before the covid-19 pandemic.
The marketing director of the Prada Group, Lorenzo Bertelli, told CNN Ten company employees worked on the space suit, dividing duties between Milan and the Axiom base in Houston, Texas, US, where the Chief underwent gravity and scuba diving tests to simulate the lunar environment.
Tests continue to be performed and the critical design review phase is scheduled for 2025, a year earlier than expected the first astronaut to land on the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972.
If the mission is successful, it might as well be the first time a woman walks on the Moon.
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