{"id":160412,"date":"2023-03-16T02:26:12","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T07:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/nasa-reveals-prototype-spacesuit-the-first-woman-on-the-moon-will-wear"},"modified":"2023-03-16T02:26:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T07:26:12","slug":"nasa-reveals-prototype-spacesuit-the-first-woman-on-the-moon-will-wear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/nasa-reveals-prototype-spacesuit-the-first-woman-on-the-moon-will-wear","title":{"rendered":"NASA Reveals Prototype Spacesuit The First Woman On The Moon Will Wear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-reveals-prototype-spacesuit-the-first-woman-on-the-moon-will-wear3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the first public event presenting the Artemis III Lunar Space Suit, NASA revealed the prototype that will be worn by the first woman and person of color to go to the Moon. Made by Axiom Space, the next-gen spacesuit will eventually be white, but is currently on display with a black cover while they finalize the top layer\u2019s final design.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5KnOtI4fS3U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axiomspace.com\/press-kit\/axemu\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit<\/a>, or AxEMU (fingers crossed this is the brief for the mission\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/sparkly-stuffed-dinosaur-seen-on-spacex-flight-played-key-role-during-launch-56207\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">zero-gravity indicator plushie<\/a>), got a grand reveal at Space Center Houston\u2019s Moon 2 Mars Festival. As a prototype, it\u2019ll join a fleet of training suits sent to NASA later this year so that astronauts can begin preparing for the next crewed lunar landing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/humans-will-fly-around-the-moon-in-2024-nasa-announces-67872\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Artemis III, set to take place in 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen that first woman steps down on the surface of the Moon on Artemis III, she\u2019s going to be wearing an Axiom Spacesuit,\u201d said associate administrator for NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5KnOtI4fS3U&ab_channel=NASA\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Bob Cabana<\/a> at the reveal. \u201cWe\u2019re going back to the Moon but we\u2019re going to the South Pole this time. Why are we going there? It\u2019s challenging. \u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first public event presenting the Artemis III Lunar Space Suit, NASA revealed the prototype that will be worn by the first woman and person of color to go to the Moon. Made by Axiom Space, the next-gen spacesuit will eventually be white, but is currently on display with a black cover while they [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":687,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/687"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}