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Hi, I'm Amy Ross. I'm a spacesuit engineer
I designed spacesuits like these.

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This is AskNASA and I'm here to answer your question.

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For the Artemis missions, Astronauts will wear spacesuits like these and they'll be able to walk on the

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moon in a space suit like this. The xEMU 
stands for Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit.

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So xEMU. On the front of
the suit, here this is called the display

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and control unit, and this is how they
control the backpack or life-support

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system of the spacesuit. The new
generation of spacesuits or the xEMU

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has a lot more mobility, so they're able
to do the science we need them to do

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such as geology, pick up rock samples and also interact with Rovers. but can she

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But, can she dab?

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Yes, she can.

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She can also floss.

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There are new technologies. So we're implementing new materials and we have more bearings in the suit,

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and that allows her to move better. We make spacesuits for humans.

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They will be wearing the suit when we send the first
woman to the moon and the next man in 2024.

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Yes, the layers of the spacesuit
protect against all the harsh conditions

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on the lunar surface, including Moon dust.
So the boots are very different more

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like a good hiking boot and they have
adjustment for better fit. donning is a

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Donning is the term we use for putting on the spacesuit.

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Doffing is taking it off.

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So, why does NASA have two Artemis spacesuits? This is
the Orion crew survival suit and it's

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This is the Orion Crew Survival Suit and it's

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different than the xEMU that you just saw
and Dustin's gonna tell you all about it.

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Thanks Amy.
This is the Orion Crew Survival Suit.

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This suit is worn during launch and entry
of Orion. This suit is also designed for

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contingency operations. If we had an
emergency in deep space, the crew could

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actually survive in this suit and live
for up to six days

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Is this spacesuit comfortable? Oh the spacesuit is very
comfortable. It's multiple layers of

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fabric but they're all very form-fitting
and tailored specifically to the

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occupant. It fits perfectly to the person
and also perfectly to the seat that they sit in.

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So, why is the spacesuit orange?

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Well, the original versions of the suit were
actually blue and we actually egressed

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into the water fancy word for getting
out of the vehicle, and we practiced our

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search and rescue ops. Orange is the most visible color for search-and-rescue

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crews coming to retrieve the crew.

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Hey, 
what's that on your leg?

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Oh, you mean these? These are actually oxygen bottles
so if we were to have to disconnect from

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the Orion capsule, they provide us about 30 minutes of air if an emergency was to to occur on orbit.

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Hey, is that a space fanny
pack under your arm?

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This is actually my life preserver unit. In case, I had to jump out of Orion into the

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water, I can pull these tabs and deploy
it. So everything about this spacesuit

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really is built for survival.

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What's the spacesuit material experiment?

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We're sending some spacesuit materials to Mars
to test them in the Martian environment.

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This experiment will show how our helmet
materials and our soft goods hold up in

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the Mars atmosphere. Our spacesuits
really are a spacecraft human-shaped

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that protect our astronauts. These are
the next-generation Artemis spacesuits

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that will go to the Moon and on to Mars

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Laughing