1731: The Amazon of NASA @FROSEDC HFN - a podcast by John Batchelor

Photo: .NASA has to embrace the private sector: "A flight-ready suit remains years away from completion," Martin wrote in his August report. "NASA officials expect to spend over $1 billion on design, testing, qualification, and development efforts before two flight-ready suits are available for use."  NASA [then] issued a draft request for proposals in July, which offered a stronger signal that it may no longer build its own spacesuits.  Here: the then-NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine high-fives Kristine Davis, a spacesuit engineer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, wearing a ground prototype of NASA’s new Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU) in 2019.





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The Amazon of NASA @FROSEDC HFN

 

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