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NASA’s commercial spacesuit program just hit a major snag (arstechnica.com)
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If NASA were to re-open competition, one of the bidders could be SpaceX, which has already designed a basic spacesuit to support the private Polaris Dawn mission.

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[-] burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

At least these are "only" the ISS suits, not the Lunar surface suits from Axiom, so this doesn't make the Artemis situation worse. Hopefully SpaceX can evolve their new suits enough to be useful for space station EVAs for Vast or whoever.

Setting this up as a task order contract never made sense to me. Firm fixed price for this also doesn't make sense to me. It's a development program with 0 commercial customers and no ability to lease them to private customers. What a weird, late, mess.

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