Anyone else disappointed when she says I'm almost done talking to you about spacesuits? I think this was a super interesting video and could've listened to more.
It's odd that she didn't cover how SLS and Artemis don't have a space suit component as part of the program despite costing 12 Billion so far. The most recent GOA report calls for more transparency from NASA who aren't planning to measure production costs to determine affordability of the program.... Yikes.
Even more terrifying to keep in mind the absence of gravity, where water likes balling and bubbling around objects, which can be your mouth in helmet. Space is a killer 😟
Luca was lucky to have a buddy out there to guide him back to the airlock. Luca was blinded, could hardly comunicate, and had to be guided hand over hand back to the airlock. It cold easily have ended badly.
I watched at least two other channels and you are the first one to break down the spacesuit situation in such detail. I understand a lot more now but I’m still frustrated.
@@TheJustinJare you trying to be funny?.. when people die in your planes you are most definitly not succesful. also the starliner fiasco, huge delays, massive cost overrun. also the fact that the boeing whistleblower died even though he left a letter saying its not a suicide
@@TheJustinJ And lets not forget how "well" they are at ensuring basic procedures are followed by all contractors, such as fastners that get removed from a door get put back on again. If they even had effective FOD management it would have been caught. FOD is the number one cause of all aviation accidents.
SpaceX's suits are completely a different animal from what NASA required for the xEMU. The zipper closures that SpaceX uses cannot be made to work with lunar regolith, so right there that's a complete redesign of the whole suit, every single part of it. As different as a fire truck is from a city bus. Then the life support issue, collins ran out of money largely on the life support system. SpaceX uses an umbilical so they would be starting from scratch on life support. A very difficult place to be.
Thanks for doing this comprehensive breakdown of the space suit situation. Didn’t we use a Russian suit a couple of times to do some joint space walks with them? A deep dive on the Russian suits would be cool too.
I recently discovered your channel. There are a lot of "Space News" RUclips channels but quite frankly I find most of the presentations very dry and boring. You on the other hand, present information in a very clear, articulate and interesting manner that makes you a pleasure to listen to.
Very informative episode. And I especially appreciate having a real human talking to me. Most other space channels concentrate on eye candy, clips unrelated to the topic, or fancy video effects - you know, entertainment. They waste my time with an intro, as if they are an old-fashioned TV program with theme music. Any actual information is just a bag on the side. I usually listen at 2X speed. Not so your channel.
Well, I hope NASA has the common sense to push for the new spacesuits with Axiom even without Collins. NASA aborted their own efforts to create new suits, which was bad enough. Push Axiom to produce, cut a deal to lease new suits from Spacex IV, EV, and XMU suits. Although personally I'd rather see everybody start using one or two person space pods for exterior new station maintenance 🤔 🙄 but the new stations must be designed more efficiently to interface with the pods robot arms, tools, etc. Pods equipped with all life support necessities, self-contained.
The suits are effectively wearable space ships tailored to different application needs. I don't know how close robot limbs and manipulators are as technology or if they could be adapted to fully meet the needs. We do remote surgery nowadays. We must be getting closer to it every decade. One day, a hard shell turtle personal zero-G ship, with manipulators and VR for the closeup work...
@@JamesPerkins I wonder if tactile feedback would be better or worse with such a system; the current gloves rather hamper the user's sense of touch. I'm pretty sure vision would be impaired though as I don't think modern displays are anywhere near the human eye's resolution (for VR applications, i.e. small and close displays).
I would tend to think this spacesuit size problem would have come to light when the astronauts were spending so much time training for missions in the water tank at Houston. {Maybe it DID but the budget restriction still won out.}
You know, I have been following the space program all my life which includes the actual beginning of the space program itself. I find it amazing that even at this juncture of history, we have to reinvent things that should actually be a virtual certainty.
When you consider the equipment that was made in under a decade for a human to travel to and use on the moon, the last 40 plus years seem to have been a down hill slide in capability.
I suppose the issue for NASA is that the ISS has only six years left. They can develop a Moon suit and use that on the ISS, but there is no funding for a suit that might only be used a few times on the ISS.
Very alarming as spacesuits have been in use successfully for many years. So what went wrong. Did I hear correctly, previously used spacesuits modified. Heaven help them.
I live in Florida. How much do those liquid cooled long johns cost? Yeah, prohibitively expensive, no doubt. They could be very popular here otherwise.
Punchline FIRST, extraneous detail LATER ..., and that accent ... But, RUclips's financials really don't promote a concise report fronting expert opinion and conclusions, with explication for those who need want to wade through it. Oh, and that accent and schoolmarm over enunciation ..., as distracting as the Australian Rising Inflection issue ...
The media uproar over the lack of "female spacesuits" a few years ago was so unbelievably misleading it really pissed me off. The issue wasn't that there weren't enough "women's" spacesuits, but that NASA doesn't have enough SPACESUITS, PERIOD. These suits were made decades ago and have been steadily falling apart, and there's no spacesuit section on Amazon where you can just order more. Two suits burned up in the Challenger explosion, and two more suits burned up in the Columbia disaster. Half the remaining suits are completely unusable, and the ones that are usable require tremendous maintenance. They patch what they can and rotate them on and off the ISS. The unique combination of specific astronauts & suits that happened to be aboard ISS at that particular time turned out to be a mismatch. That's what the real problem was: NASA failed to make sure the available equipment matched the available personnel. But the media and activists all framed it as some kind of "NASA IS SEXIST" story. It just pissed me off so much.
NASA reply to Ad Astra, that they have four EVA spacesits on the ISS (8:00), is slightly disingenous. NASA does have four aboard the ISS; but the Russians also have EVA suits aboard, two in fact... but they are for cosmonauts only.
Better give SpaceX a call and request some development help with the EMU space suit. I'll be willing to bet SpaceX has a solution that is decades ahead of NASA design just right about now.......
I wonder why the lack of vision. Also, the Europeans are enjoying the massive investment than the USA and Russia did for the international space station. When NASA's direction was: to go to the Moon and they needed to create spacesuits for the moon (including dealing with the abrasive moon dust) Europe should have said: don't worry we will develop EVA suits for everybody.
Maybe NASA should ask the Russians for the loan of one of their suits. NASA should be relegated to monitoring space probes and setting safety standards for space craft launched from the US. The FAA of space. That would probably be a boon to foreign launch facilities.
"NASA would rather spend its limited money developing a new spacesuit than trying to build more of the old one." Yes, and I'm sure that a bureaucracy like NASA can make new space suit designs SO cheaply!
This reminds me of when I found Dr Becky's channel with not to many subs, and then a year or two later she has 750,000, 10K subs now, but I expect this will be a lot more In a year or two....subbed!
SpaceX is testing their own spacesuit on the Polaris Dawn mission sometime in July. Since he intends to mass produce these suits, perhaps they could sell NASA some suits
No good, SpaceX is still back in 1964 with their spacesuit. Ed White in 1965 did the first US spacewalk from his Gemini craft. He used an umbilical, just like SpaceX's current design.They are no good for the advanced spacewalks NASA does. They have to become self powered, air scrubbing, oxygen supplying, pumping, water providing, communication and temperature regulating spacecraft. That will take years.
The incompetents behind the scenes are so many that success is difficult in any project. When Apollo 13 went bad we had minute by minute details of both problems and solutions, now it takes days to hear what the problems are, and nothing about solutions. Discomfort? it's all secrecy. For shame. And it's getting worse. Stop the spin. Commit to excellence!
Here is a snippet demonstrating the latest technology used by NASA: (news caster on evening news) "Good evening! We are covering live the NASA meeting with the steam engine pilots union. We are now switching to the meeting." (sound of bell and steam whistle, union boss in coal stained shirt rises from chair) I want to submit a motion for the firebox stokers' union to be heard in protest of the working conditions! The steam pilot's union will join the firemen in their protest motion!
I had no idea the suits weren't custom sized. Having a mis sized hard upper torso must be absolutely awful for women's... differently shaped upper body.
Never thought of this before but why even bother with a suit? Why not choose a much simpler design? I can understand the arms and something helmet-like to give you a good close-up view, but also a wider peripheral view. Of course you'd want it as minimal as possible, but why such a complicated shape when a sort of fridge shaped space scooter with arms and a vision bubble will do? The simpler shape will help keep the mass down.
First mistake you made at 1:36 - they can't just swap out spacesuits - anyone really paying attention knows each suit is custom fit for the astronaut, so each can only wear their suit. Thus changing astronauts is about the only option if a problem with a suit cannot be resolved. Standard stuff - these space suits were designed 40 years ago, and the new suits won't be ready for a while still. As for the oxygen situation, they have wayyy more oxygen than just enough for 2 spacewalks - that's total BS!
It's too bad the Axiom suits for the moon landings are only in the prototype phase (since they are only supposed to be going there next year . . . now pushed back another couple years) since they'd be more comfortable with the articulated limbs and 3 sizes (s,m,l and different arm and leg lengths). They don't need to walk in them in orbit, but the articulation would be a lot better for those fix-it eva activities.
How the freaking hell could the NASA's huge spacesuit problem just get any worse while its cooling system is leaking like hell? Are you suggesting that the NASA's huge spacesuit just got punctured through and through? And any alien can see through the NASA's spacesuit and witness what color of the underwear that the astronaut wears is?
Ey man, there is another thing! It's like, there are no toilets in orbit you can walk to, so the astronauts kinda like whizz and poop in a diaper pack, when they are outside, kinda like dogues in a park, except you cannot mark a tree or fence post, so you keep it in the suit, know what I mean? So there is like years of skid marks and yellow snow-angels inside of these suits! This is not your grandpa's clean and nice James Bond tuxedo suit, knowaddameen?
Space. The final frontier where one's competence depends on their hips in very physically way. I pray for that prolonged maintenance old suits. Nobody should suffer from these problems.
I'm sorry, but I believe astronauts should not only have the safest suits, but they should be so comfortable the don't even realize they are wearing them. they have enough to concentrate on just for safety reasons alone, let alone trying to get a job done when you have a metal wedgie or are drowning in a pressurized suit. I don't care how many astronauts there are. get a grip NASA they absolutely must be custom fit. if you want the best performance ensure the comfort of your astronauts.
I am so glad that NASA has been spending millions of dollars and decades of research and development to improve the spacesuits our astronauts use. Situation normal - bureaucratic interference.
Elon Musk will have bigger and more powerful spacesuits in a few months ! SpaceX is also about to showoff the starship crew cabin and life support system ! I cant wait to see the fitness center and glass ceiling room !
Imagine the cost and logistics for a million environmental suits on Mars. Kids raised on Mars will grow so fast out of their environmental suits. The Apollo Moon environmental suits only had a useful life of 24 hours. Cleaning suits on the Moon or Mars will be a huge needed business.
These suits are probably 50 year old tech. Look at the newer suits being used and they almost look like a fashionable garments. Does a spacesuit need to look like a tank? Do you need to pressurize all parts of the suit?
Like anything that is essential to have working 100% then as they get old they will get issues that need updating or repairing. They need to replace these suits soon. The problem is that the older suits come only in fixed sizes.
A super interesting video. I love the technical nature of Swapna Krishna's work. It never occurred to me that we could still be suffering ramifications from the Columbia disaster, due to the suits that were lost along with the astronauts. I hope that the upcoming Polaris Dawn mission is successful and that SpaceX is able to showcase its new EVA suits. If NASA is still open to engaging new suit contractors, SpaceX could provide some significant relief to the problem.
Sorry SpaceX spacesuits are really primitive and no use to NASA's requirements. NASA is 26 years behind in its 1998 current design but SpaceX is 60 years behind. Ed White in the Gemini craft in 1965 did what SpaceX want to do next year.
The big problem with these suits is the fact that they are spaceships. SpaceX goes another (Experimental) way by using an umbilical (long flexible tube) that regulates the oxygen and cooling etc etc. A way lighter concept and astronauts can EVA way longer although have mobility retraints to what they can reach around the ISS.
Just like Ed White on the Gemini spacewalk in 1965, 60 years ago. Umbilical spacesuits are useless and not a sign of an advanced solution, quite the opposite. SpaceX is nowhere near having any proper EVA suits.
The ISS is scheduled to be decommissioned in 2031. Much has been learned during its ~20 year lifetime. Realistically, how much more should be invested in this aging station that will be deorbited and destroyed in just a few years? Seems like the funds could be better utilized in other areas of space and orbital research
B52's have been kept operating, with modifications. There are even Amelia Earhart planes still operating. ISS could do the same. I think the goal of space should be aerospace advancement, not keeping old things going.
First space suit from the US was used in space in 1961, the first EVA suit from the US was 1965. The Soviet firsts were the same years, but slightly ahead in both cases.
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Wow. When they said "using old spacesuits", I assumed they meant old designs. But no, these are literally ancient pieces of hardware wearing out.
Anyone else disappointed when she says I'm almost done talking to you about spacesuits? I think this was a super interesting video and could've listened to more.
It's odd that she didn't cover how SLS and Artemis don't have a space suit component as part of the program despite costing 12 Billion so far. The most recent GOA report calls for more transparency from NASA who aren't planning to measure production costs to determine affordability of the program.... Yikes.
Too dramatic!!! This is disinformation. sorry I watched it.
Having water in the helmet sounds terrifying 😱
They need water in the helmet to drink, apple juice would be better but beggars can’t be choosers.
Even more terrifying to keep in mind the absence of gravity, where water likes balling and bubbling around objects, which can be your mouth in helmet. Space is a killer 😟
One astronaut almost drowned during an EVA a few years ago.
spacesuits also have circulating water for cooling
Luca was lucky to have a buddy out there to guide him back to the airlock. Luca was blinded, could hardly comunicate, and had to be guided hand over hand back to the airlock. It cold easily have ended badly.
I watched at least two other channels and you are the first one to break down the spacesuit situation in such detail. I understand a lot more now but I’m still frustrated.
I used to work for Collins so I'm not surprised by their failure, comparing them to Axiom is like comparing Boeing to SpaceX. Thanks Swapna! 👍👍
Blue Origin to SpaceX*
Boeing is incredibly successful with their projects. Ex 737MAX.
NASA could of collaborate with CNSA to design and build new space suit.
Oh my bad. The Wolf Amendment law prevent such co-operation....too bad.
@@TheJustinJare you trying to be funny?.. when people die in your planes you are most definitly not succesful. also the starliner fiasco, huge delays, massive cost overrun.
also the fact that the boeing whistleblower died even though he left a letter saying its not a suicide
@@TheJustinJ And lets not forget how "well" they are at ensuring basic procedures are followed by all contractors, such as fastners that get removed from a door get put back on again. If they even had effective FOD management it would have been caught.
FOD is the number one cause of all aviation accidents.
I’m not sure what your comment even means.
So what you expect us to believe is that men and women are different sizes, and have different shapes?
Amazing, ain't it?...
I’m going to have to make a note of that
Pronoun xe is against this religious claim!
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Most Western men and women ARE the same size: FAT!
Hello from a slim, fit 60 year old New Zealand cyclist.
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SpaceX's suits are completely a different animal from what NASA required for the xEMU. The zipper closures that SpaceX uses cannot be made to work with lunar regolith, so right there that's a complete redesign of the whole suit, every single part of it. As different as a fire truck is from a city bus.
Then the life support issue, collins ran out of money largely on the life support system. SpaceX uses an umbilical so they would be starting from scratch on life support. A very difficult place to be.
Thanks for doing this comprehensive breakdown of the space suit situation. Didn’t we use a Russian suit a couple of times to do some joint space walks with them? A deep dive on the Russian suits would be cool too.
Space is hard!
Naah, its a cruel mistress.
"It's harder when you're stupid".
Space is indeed hard, especially for something defined as insubstantial.
Thank you so much for the update!
Also, human bodies change dimensions when in orbit. I remember the twin astronaut was 2 inches taller when he got home.
Spine isn’t compressed like it is on Earth. You’re actually taller in the morning after lying in bed all night.
Small people should be sent to space for their healing?
@@blacknoir2404 And compressed from the front if you lay in bed having sex. That is why i prefer to lie on top.
@@wolfgangpreier9160 Only if you equate "small" and "bad".
@@blacknoir2404I hadn’t thought about that but it certainly makes sense. The twins height difference was remarkable when they stand together.
Straight talking and well informed, no video gimmicks or music. Escellent
As Robert Heinlein (I think) pointed out decades ago. Legs are unnecessary in space.
Oh well if we amputate them the astronauts will be lighter and take less fuel to launch into space.
Orson Scott Card made a similar point in Ender's Game, with Ender treating them as literal meat shields
I recently discovered your channel. There are a lot of "Space News" RUclips channels but quite frankly I find most of the presentations very dry and boring. You on the other hand, present information in a very clear, articulate and interesting manner that makes you a pleasure to listen to.
And watch!
Also, she's a looker!
I appreciate these types of videos so much - thank you! Great video.
It's not "Murphy's" law, it's now "Boeing's" law. 😮
😂😂..👍
Very informative episode. And I especially appreciate having a real human talking to me.
Most other space channels concentrate on eye candy, clips unrelated to the topic, or fancy video effects - you know, entertainment. They waste my time with an intro, as if they are an old-fashioned TV program with theme music. Any actual information is just a bag on the side. I usually listen at 2X speed.
Not so your channel.
Well, I hope NASA has the common sense to push for the new spacesuits with Axiom even without Collins. NASA aborted their own efforts to create new suits, which was bad enough. Push Axiom to produce, cut a deal to lease new suits from Spacex IV, EV, and XMU suits. Although personally I'd rather see everybody start using one or two person space pods for exterior new station maintenance 🤔 🙄 but the new stations must be designed more efficiently to interface with the pods robot arms, tools, etc. Pods equipped with all life support necessities, self-contained.
The suits are effectively wearable space ships tailored to different application needs. I don't know how close robot limbs and manipulators are as technology or if they could be adapted to fully meet the needs. We do remote surgery nowadays. We must be getting closer to it every decade. One day, a hard shell turtle personal zero-G ship, with manipulators and VR for the closeup work...
@@JamesPerkins I wonder if tactile feedback would be better or worse with such a system; the current gloves rather hamper the user's sense of touch. I'm pretty sure vision would be impaired though as I don't think modern displays are anywhere near the human eye's resolution (for VR applications, i.e. small and close displays).
I would tend to think this spacesuit size problem would have come to light when the astronauts were spending so much time training for missions in the water tank at Houston.
{Maybe it DID but the budget restriction still won out.}
Love your enthusiasm for all things space and Astronomy !🤩
You know, I have been following the space program all my life which includes the actual beginning of the space program itself. I find it amazing that even at this juncture of history, we have to reinvent things that should actually be a virtual certainty.
Nasa and the other Space players should support SpaceX rather than trying to down SpaceX for advancement in space works.
you actually have it exactly backwards
_SpaceX and other space players should support NASA rather than trying to down NASA for advancement in space works._
I would not trust anything Musk is involved in
They already support SpaceX with contracts of billions of dollars and lots of free technical support.
@@peterwilson7532please name one form of free technical support granted to SpaceX which is not available to the other contenders.
4:53 _"You might be thinking that space is cold, and that's true..."_
Wrong. Space is a very hard vacuum, and a vacuum is neither hot nor cold.
"Wider hips, bigger behinds and thicker thighs"
They are having new spacesuits being made makes sense. But personally think 3.5 billion dollars for one is ridiculous.
Not really, at least not for what is required
When you consider the equipment that was made in under a decade for a human to travel to and use on the moon, the last 40 plus years seem to have been a down hill slide in capability.
DEI for astronauts but not their suits???? PERFECT!
I suppose the issue for NASA is that the ISS has only six years left. They can develop a Moon suit and use that on the ISS, but there is no funding for a suit that might only be used a few times on the ISS.
Selecting contractors based on which senator NASA needed to please is a practice that need to be stopped.
Great explanation of a very complex issue. I had no idea.
Very alarming as spacesuits have been in use successfully for many years. So what went wrong. Did I hear correctly, previously used spacesuits modified. Heaven help them.
I live in Florida. How much do those liquid cooled long johns cost?
Yeah, prohibitively expensive, no doubt. They could be very popular here otherwise.
Punchline FIRST, extraneous detail LATER ..., and that accent ...
But, RUclips's financials really don't promote a concise report fronting expert opinion and conclusions, with explication for those who need want to wade through it.
Oh, and that accent and schoolmarm over enunciation ..., as distracting as the Australian Rising Inflection issue ...
The media uproar over the lack of "female spacesuits" a few years ago was so unbelievably misleading it really pissed me off. The issue wasn't that there weren't enough "women's" spacesuits, but that NASA doesn't have enough SPACESUITS, PERIOD. These suits were made decades ago and have been steadily falling apart, and there's no spacesuit section on Amazon where you can just order more. Two suits burned up in the Challenger explosion, and two more suits burned up in the Columbia disaster. Half the remaining suits are completely unusable, and the ones that are usable require tremendous maintenance. They patch what they can and rotate them on and off the ISS.
The unique combination of specific astronauts & suits that happened to be aboard ISS at that particular time turned out to be a mismatch. That's what the real problem was: NASA failed to make sure the available equipment matched the available personnel. But the media and activists all framed it as some kind of "NASA IS SEXIST" story. It just pissed me off so much.
NASA reply to Ad Astra, that they have four EVA spacesits on the ISS (8:00), is slightly disingenous. NASA does have four aboard the ISS; but the Russians also have EVA suits aboard, two in fact... but they are for cosmonauts only.
Better give SpaceX a call and request some development help with the EMU space suit. I'll be willing to bet SpaceX has a solution that is decades ahead of NASA design just right about now.......
I wonder why the lack of vision. Also, the Europeans are enjoying the massive investment than the USA and Russia did for the international space station. When NASA's direction was: to go to the Moon and they needed to create spacesuits for the moon (including dealing with the abrasive moon dust) Europe should have said: don't worry we will develop EVA suits for everybody.
Maybe NASA should ask the Russians for the loan of one of their suits. NASA should be relegated to monitoring space probes and setting safety standards for space craft launched from the US. The FAA of space. That would probably be a boon to foreign launch facilities.
"NASA would rather spend its limited money developing a new spacesuit than trying to build more of the old one." Yes, and I'm sure that a bureaucracy like NASA can make new space suit designs SO cheaply!
I watch many Space related videos on RUclips and you often cover interesting topics that I can't find anywhere else. Thank you for your originality!
Well, NASA is saving money. I guess that's all that counts now. NASA can always get another astronaut.
This reminds me of when I found Dr Becky's channel with not to many subs, and then a year or two later she has 750,000, 10K subs now, but I expect this will be a lot more In a year or two....subbed!
SpaceX is testing their own spacesuit on the Polaris Dawn mission sometime in July. Since he intends to mass produce these suits, perhaps they could sell NASA some suits
No good, SpaceX is still back in 1964 with their spacesuit. Ed White in 1965 did the first US spacewalk from his Gemini craft. He used an umbilical, just like SpaceX's current design.They are no good for the advanced spacewalks NASA does.
They have to become self powered, air scrubbing, oxygen supplying, pumping, water providing, communication and temperature regulating spacecraft. That will take years.
The incompetents behind the scenes are so many that success is difficult in any project. When Apollo 13 went bad we had minute by minute details of both problems and solutions, now it takes days to hear what the problems are, and nothing about solutions. Discomfort? it's all secrecy. For shame. And it's getting worse. Stop the spin. Commit to excellence!
Here is a snippet demonstrating the latest technology used by NASA:
(news caster on evening news) "Good evening! We are covering live the NASA meeting with the steam engine pilots union. We are now switching to the meeting."
(sound of bell and steam whistle, union boss in coal stained shirt rises from chair) I want to submit a motion for the firebox stokers' union to be heard in protest of the working conditions! The steam pilot's union will join the firemen in their protest motion!
I had no idea the suits weren't custom sized. Having a mis sized hard upper torso must be absolutely awful for women's... differently shaped upper body.
Never thought of this before but why even bother with a suit? Why not choose a much simpler design? I can understand the arms and something helmet-like to give you a good close-up view, but also a wider peripheral view. Of course you'd want it as minimal as possible, but why such a complicated shape when a sort of fridge shaped space scooter with arms and a vision bubble will do? The simpler shape will help keep the mass down.
First mistake you made at 1:36 - they can't just swap out spacesuits - anyone really paying attention knows each suit is custom fit for the astronaut, so each can only wear their suit. Thus changing astronauts is about the only option if a problem with a suit cannot be resolved. Standard stuff - these space suits were designed 40 years ago, and the new suits won't be ready for a while still. As for the oxygen situation, they have wayyy more oxygen than just enough for 2 spacewalks - that's total BS!
It's too bad the Axiom suits for the moon landings are only in the prototype phase (since they are only supposed to be going there next year . . . now pushed back another couple years) since they'd be more comfortable with the articulated limbs and 3 sizes (s,m,l and different arm and leg lengths). They don't need to walk in them in orbit, but the articulation would be a lot better for those fix-it eva activities.
NASA should have stuck with ILC. They had the legacy experience to deal with the changes in tech.....
How the freaking hell could the NASA's huge spacesuit problem just get any worse while its cooling system is leaking like hell? Are you suggesting that the NASA's huge spacesuit just got punctured through and through? And any alien can see through the NASA's spacesuit and witness what color of the underwear that the astronaut wears is?
Why didn't YoutTube recommend one of your videos to me sooner. This is great. You are great! Thanks for the great video.
0:43 So there were three astronauts, right? "...two astronauts performing the EVA along with Tracy Dyson."
Could the problem be a potential loss of breathable gas. Or maybe with the faceplate blowing off? Then there are the thrusters and the O-rings...
Ey man, there is another thing! It's like, there are no toilets in orbit you can walk to, so the astronauts kinda like whizz and poop in a diaper pack, when they are outside, kinda like dogues in a park, except you cannot mark a tree or fence post, so you keep it in the suit, know what I mean? So there is like years of skid marks and yellow snow-angels inside of these suits! This is not your grandpa's clean and nice James Bond tuxedo suit, knowaddameen?
Space. The final frontier where one's competence depends on their hips in very physically way. I pray for that prolonged maintenance old suits. Nobody should suffer from these problems.
hmm, what other space company has been developing a suit capable of surviving in space? It'd have to be a company with Exploration in the name...
I rea something about a $3 billion dollar spacesuit program. And I thought Armani suits were expensive.
I'm sorry, but I believe astronauts should not only have the safest suits, but they should be so comfortable the don't even realize they are wearing them. they have enough to concentrate on just for safety reasons alone, let alone trying to get a job done when you have a metal wedgie or are drowning in a pressurized suit.
I don't care how many astronauts there are. get a grip NASA they absolutely must be custom fit.
if you want the best performance ensure the comfort of your astronauts.
Very good explanation of spacesuits. Never knew these were so complicated to build and maintain. Space is a dangerous place for humans.
Amazing ! In the 1960’s they were able to suit up men to spend hours bouncing all over the moon and drive moon buggies at speed!
I am so glad that NASA has been spending millions of dollars and decades of research and development to improve the spacesuits our astronauts use. Situation normal - bureaucratic interference.
Elon Musk will have bigger and more powerful spacesuits in a few months ! SpaceX is also about to showoff the starship crew cabin and life support system ! I cant wait to see the fitness center and glass ceiling room !
Just hit Dairy Queen daily for a few months before space. Problem solved.
Imagine if we spent a small percentage of our military budget on space exploration these kinds of things wouldn't be problems at all.
Imagine the cost and logistics for a million environmental suits on Mars. Kids raised on Mars will grow so fast out of their environmental suits. The Apollo Moon environmental suits only had a useful life of 24 hours. Cleaning suits on the Moon or Mars will be a huge needed business.
These suits are probably 50 year old tech. Look at the newer suits being used and they almost look like a fashionable garments. Does a spacesuit need to look like a tank? Do you need to pressurize all parts of the suit?
Thanks for researching and putting together this excellent video on the NASA spacesuit situation.
Like anything that is essential to have working 100% then as they get old they will get issues that need updating or repairing. They need to replace these suits soon. The problem is that the older suits come only in fixed sizes.
Utterly pathetic. The budget cutting and the rigidity of thinking - and bureaucracy - is a mess!
Why is NASA not looking at the space suit developed by Elon Musk team ?
Just use or copy the spacesuits that got men on the moon in the first place, they worked didn't they? 50 years ago.
I might have stayed to discover thee issues, but the extravagant stresses in the commentary and the mad hand movements were far too distracting....
Well our leaders tell us Deys no difference between men and women 😂😂😂😂 so just deal with it😂😂😂😂
There isn't a bit of transparency in any of the current administration agencies.
Politics need to be sidelined.
Umm i thought the cooling system was for the extreme heat of direct sunlight, not just bodyheat
That vocal fry, couldn't stand it for more than 10 seconds.
I thought they are going to use the Russian space suits. They are superber, eazy to put on and reliable
NO WAY.... NASA... ? problems... ?? I thought NASA already landed on the moon 50 years ago, really.... 🤔🤔🤔🤔
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Well researched, nice presentation. 👌🏆
Subbed.
to the host:
do you know that the title used for your channel is also used by a magazine?
A super interesting video. I love the technical nature of Swapna Krishna's work. It never occurred to me that we could still be suffering ramifications from the Columbia disaster, due to the suits that were lost along with the astronauts. I hope that the upcoming Polaris Dawn mission is successful and that SpaceX is able to showcase its new EVA suits. If NASA is still open to engaging new suit contractors, SpaceX could provide some significant relief to the problem.
Sorry SpaceX spacesuits are really primitive and no use to NASA's requirements. NASA is 26 years behind in its 1998 current design but SpaceX is 60 years behind. Ed White in the Gemini craft in 1965 did what SpaceX want to do next year.
Water was in the helmet and a few gold fish were swimming...😂😂😂😂😂
The big problem with these suits is the fact that they are spaceships. SpaceX goes another (Experimental) way by using an umbilical (long flexible tube) that regulates the oxygen and cooling etc etc. A way lighter concept and astronauts can EVA way longer although have mobility retraints to what they can reach around the ISS.
Just like Ed White on the Gemini spacewalk in 1965, 60 years ago. Umbilical spacesuits are useless and not a sign of an advanced solution, quite the opposite. SpaceX is nowhere near having any proper EVA suits.
Whatever happened to the spacesuit designs out of MIT?
The ISS is scheduled to be decommissioned in 2031. Much has been learned during its ~20 year lifetime. Realistically, how much more should be invested in this aging station that will be deorbited and destroyed in just a few years? Seems like the funds could be better utilized in other areas of space and orbital research
B52's have been kept operating, with modifications. There are even Amelia Earhart planes still operating. ISS could do the same. I think the goal of space should be aerospace advancement, not keeping old things going.
Typical for Obama's third term.
Wow, lot more details that I didn't know. Thanks!
Houston we have a Poop Problem lol
How can you send people to space without a suit? Ridiculous!
Unfortunately it's a lot worse temperature hotspots it is not good
NASA’s problem is that it spends 10X the amount of money that it needs to. It wastes SO much.
The U.S. DoD controls 80% of NASA. So much for a civilian space agency.
Why not buy some made in China spacesuits 😂😂😂
SpaceX has a suit lol!
Struth. With their current one you have to lean back to look up.
Not really...
The American spacesuit was first used no later than 1969, right?
First space suit from the US was used in space in 1961, the first EVA suit from the US was 1965. The Soviet firsts were the same years, but slightly ahead in both cases.
Budget cuts!??? So more money to pockets!!
Thanks. Interesting explanation.
give it to SpaceX....and Elon will get it dun
You did a great job👍 Please keep up the good work 😃
Very nice summary... Thank you! :)