NASA Spacesuit Development 

My daughter loves these videos. She's 6 and wants to be an astronaut. 😊

NO! WE WANT IRON MAN!

Why would anyone dislike this video? It depends where the suit would be used as to whether the light has utility or not. Shadows are dark in space and on the Moon. A light is handy and hands free as well. As Kyle A and jscott1000 point out: The outer layer is the only thing the public had input into and the covering can have many different looks and still be completely functional. If it looks cool fine.

Oh man, that Z-2 is pretty sweet!

Mercury Program: Suits by engineers meant to get the job done. 2015 NASA: Fashion designers and neon lights. I don't even ... Talk about life support and energy needs, protection and endurance. ... not friggin' fashion

Why does the Z2 have knuckle gloves? To fight aliens?

Really nice to see some of the new concepts. The lighting elements are a nice touch, as long as one can turn them off too. Perhaps some glow-in-the-dark material would be good to harness the sunlight, passively? That could be what that lighted element was, perhaps. New range of motion looks great.

Love the TRON suit.

Hands on in development is always a plus!!!

anyone else laughed when the astronaut fell.

I think the suits are looking great. I am more excited about how the videos that are being produced are much better!

whenever you hear a NASA engineer say "we were able to take some artistic liberties" you know with total certainty that whatever it was was never intended for actual use.

I think that Mini computer attached to the suit is really necessary and cool.

I love this video! I've always been very curious about the spacesuits! The ships, shuttles and stations are incredibly cool, but I'm amazed that you can send a human safely out into space with fabric and materials made on our planet! I'd love to see even more! How do the gloves clip on and keep out bad air? What sort of temperature and oxygen control source do they use!? How heavy are the suits? How much training do the astronauts have getting used to the suit before they're sent out for an EVA? Thanks for the video!!

Let's make power armour

One thing missing in all these projects suits to walk on the surface of Mars, on Moon or other planets is a auxiliary equilibrium system to compensate the inability of our human labyrinth to manege these huge and heavy suits in and non standard earth gravity environment. A suit to work properly in future off-Earth bases with normal people not so prepared and trained like NASA astronauts for extended periods of time must have one structured active exoskeleton incorporated in the suit (meta materials and/or electric activated materials working like muscles) and linked to an ACTIVE device to provide ultra fast dynamic equilibrium. Something like a mix with this anti-earthquake systems for very-high buildings and additionally to this system we could integrate an extra device like these modern one or two wheels Segway style transportation devices. The two systems must be mechanic and electronic linked by the active exoskeleton and work together to active help the astronaut to be stand up and move safely. The main function of the exoskeleton is to manege the equilibrium of backpack no matter his size or weight giving to the user of the suit the illusion that the survival unit backpack is not there and he only have to manege his body with active help of the suit. The Segway type segment unit is for fast and/or large dislocations and could be optionally used or not by the user. I think this design must be seriously considered to be incorporated in future suit designs in long term off-world missions.

OOOH. Pretty lights.

Amazing

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Really nice :)

this is like something out of a sci-fi film

I'm missing electronic sensor in the suit over all the body that could help made the pressure more individual and maybe less weight

let's wait for SpaceX's design

thank you

BEAUTIFULL

Does the big light on the Z2 actually serve a purpose?

yeah I'm not american so my dreams of working for NASA i had were *crushed* it wasn't easy

Um dia vai ser eu , e sendo FÍSICA/ASTROFÍSICA COM DOUTORADO EM OUTRO PAÍS PRINCIPALMENTE EUA, ASTRONAUTA E DOUTORA EM ASTROFÍSICA! SCIENTIST! One day I will be an astronaut and a PhD in astrophysics / astroparticle physics, in another country mainly in the United States, SCIENTIST!

How about the shoes? Could it be adjusted if one's feet don't fit well?

LMAO!!! ANYBODY ELSE SAW THAT ASTRONAUT TRIP ON 1:45?

Mars is approaching. It's interesting.

good. we need to look like aliens so that when we meet aliens they'll know we're aliens.

Itching can the hand be pull to scratching the budd

2:46 Are we sending Quasimodo into space??

this suits are based on US suits for mobility, and russian suits for heasy insert :with the back door, it's possible to fit it alone who is imposible for standard US suits...

since we can't create artificial gravity how about they include electro magnet's in Boots and small environment controls based upon the one they use in submarine (aka c02 scrubbers and touch controls)

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Super

Future needs Magnetic Levitation Building hanging on Astroid within Vacuum Tube Transportation System (Hyperloop), Solar City into Space Planets etc. NASA, ISRO, SpaceX or CNSA must try this as next mission.

the GUI in the "suit control assembly" needs some work. To me it looks like glare from the sun would, all too easily make it difficult to read the text on the screen. Bolder text might help a little..

Cool

What happened to those new compression form fitting suits NASA was all hot about. Are they just for other space program for now.

Where would you plug in A metal detector, for any surface metals on the moon or mars 🍳

The way you get in looks like power armer

to me, the lunar suits were the best looking ever, this "fancy" black suit with the light looks like it comes from a bad scifi movie from the 60's. the other design looks practical tho.

We will get to themoon.... eventually

hang on that was canadarm2

3:39 OH MY GOD AMY ROSE SONIC FANS ARE GONNA GO BALLISTIC

It looks like an "Orlan" space suit)

can you freeze the pod at some time or another

I can instantly see ways the design can be improved. Nasa should have open forums for more brain neuron per problem.

On Mars you wouldn't need a space suit as pressurized and large as one for vacuum. You can just use an ultra tight suit that applies pressure directly to the skin

2:09 is this LCDR Alex Dietrich, USN from the documentary "Carrier" ?

I honestly want to be an astronaut. I'd love to be one of the first people on Mars, but I guess the oil field will have to do for now.

Wow

I'm still waiting for the day they make the spartan space suit

Hello NASA

cool

Re 5:00 Is that flexibility at 15psig & +200C?

The real technological break through will be when we create a pressure suit that is more slim and body hugging, and not so bulky, heavy, and restricting in terms of motion. It'll look more like just a helmet, jacket and pants versus a big balloon shaped personal space craft. I don't think the technology is quite yet there but we're getting closer.

"these suits were made for walkin'"

The Z2 looks like a futuristic suit with a destiny logo on it.

Must be so hot going into the desert in a spacesuit as shown in the video :0

go with the tron design.

Would love to see these tested in the harsh climate of Antarctica - not exactly Mars but definitely cold enough.

This is for the people who want them to design power armor like in sci-fi movies and anime. It's not gonna happen. For one, there's no weight in space so strength enhancement is utterly pointless. It would also make the suit heavier and more expensive to get into space as well as produce. The people who genuinely want power armor in space are simply not thinking on a practical level. The kind of EVA suits I'd like to see are ones that allow for more freedom of movement and you don't need super-strong actuators for that.

I'm waiting them to make one called the P.E.S

"we want it to be fashionable and attractive!" me: "functional and safe, slap a few bumper stickers on it's arse and call it a day"

The z2 is based more on design rather than actual space stuff

5:22-5:25 Haha! So cute.

Track ID? In the beginning

Suit that protects your self from the sun?

Só tem eu de Brasíleira ? 😕

what about the cryo freeze method

WSC FANS HI TO ALL OF YOU

Yup

I like to see a schematic on how that cooling system works the amount of battery power need into an air conditioning system or even a system that would keep that liquid cool or poor warm in the case of it being freezing and the shade of the Sun in space like the Dark Side of the Moon the difference is over 250 degrees Fahrenheit you can bake cookies and that temperature I would love to see them stick an astronaut and a 250 degree oven and then put them in a - 250 degree Sub-Zero environment I wonder how that government would stand up to being superheated supercooled repeatedly

what if you used bio-luminescent bacteria as light in the suit?

Now how is NASA going to get this in one of the Tonka Trucks they've been sending to Mars for the last 50 years?

Good thing it has carbon fiber knuckles, in case you gotta knock out some aliens.

Hunchback mania.

what if a natruto suit

I can dress me up as a astronaut, but I'll never run into space. What do I do with infinity space?

dude why does the z2 look like an among us hunchback model

Victoria Secrets is not sub-contractor?

Can you guys make a suit that is like power armor?

2:48 among us...

I died at 1:45

cool hu

1:45 😂😂😂😂

Aren't they also working on a skinsuit?

6:44 I designed that 'flying chair" system in high school back in the 70's. NASA spies must have stolen it. I've also noticed that my solar shingles have gone into production. Get your patents kids. You never know.

Bill Nye - Atmospheric Pressure:

I can't believe these comments There are actually people who think this is just as real as STAR TREK ....

Use the normal moon space suit but make it orange for mars

1:43 lol.

Proof the moon ain’t cheese

Sweey

Prototype Space suit that's barely better than what came before. Meanwhile NASA are complaining they are running out of suits. How many prototypes must we see over the decades that don't make it. Crazy we haven't moved to mechanical pressure. The lack of proper HUDs also.

That's pretty cute but you never now if your going to space not many people go too space