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there's been a lot of excitement about

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but what about that iconic puffy

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marshmallow suit that we used to walk on

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the moon this is what we call an extra

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vehicular mobility unit or emu and these

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suits truly are in a class of their own

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since apollo we've retooled and

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reimagined what can be accomplished on a

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spacewalk and the current spacesuit that

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nasa uses is based on a design that

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first flew in 1981

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through rigorous maintenance safety

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testing and upgrades this suit has

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allowed us to perform some incredibly

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monumental achievements and spacewalk

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our way into the record books

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you may have all come on different ships

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but we're in the same boat now a

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spacesuit is not something you simply

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wear it's more like an astronaut's very

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own personal vehicle a spacesuit is

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basically a self-contained environment

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it is a mini spacecraft that is tightly

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wound around a human body containing

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everything they need to survive because

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we are going back to the moon and onto

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mars

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exploration spacesuits have to solve the

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challenges from the past and anticipate

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those in the future some of the biggest

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environmental challenges that we're

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seeing is finding a balance between

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mobility and lunar dust in other words

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exploration is dirty work

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looks like you guys have been playing in

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a cold bend i don't know how we're gonna

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get it off let's do the best we can

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like how are we gonna clean these guys

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off before they're allowed to go back

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inside there's

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many ways and do we know if they work we

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have to find out and when your life

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depends on a good seal and perfectly

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performing fabrics dust is kind of a big

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deal

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lunar regolith it looks like it's it's

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just a fine-grained material when you

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when you see the pictures of the apollo

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boots in it and stuff but uh you're

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gonna see anywhere from broken rock

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shapes

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that's what it looks like under the

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microscope of such a small particle size

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range that it gets in everything the

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apollo missions only needed their suits

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to last for a few moonwalks but these

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missions to the moon and mars could be

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weeks months and even years long

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demanding the most innovative solutions

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from nasa and our industry partners

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whether we put a protective layer

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whether we are able to charge the suit

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to repel dust

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there are multiple things that we're

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looking at so we still have a lot of

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challenges and work the original emu's

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were designed for the astronauts of that

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era

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since then our astronaut classes have

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become far more diverse and the next

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generation of spacesuits can follow well

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suit

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as nasa works together with industry

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partners on exploration spacesuits

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follow along and be part of our journey