{"id":11928,"date":"2015-12-14T17:01:31","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T22:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11928"},"modified":"2015-12-14T17:01:31","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T22:01:31","slug":"video-new-spacesuit-designs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11928","title":{"rendered":"Video: New spacesuit designs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a NASA video about new\u00a0spacesuit designs that the agency is developing:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P32j17Fl5L0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk\u00a0talks in this interview about the spacesuits that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/SpaceX.com\" target=\"_blank\">SpaceX<\/a> is designing for the company&#8217;s astronauts who\u00a0will fly in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacex.com\/crew-dragon\" target=\"_blank\">Crew Dragon<\/a> vehicle:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/elon-musk-mars-spacex-tesla-interview\" target=\"_d\">How Elon Musk Plans on Reinventing the World (and Mars) &#8211; GQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>.. And so this Monday evening, his mind is on space suits. Right now, specifically, he needs to go see the latest secret prototype of a new kind of space suit\u2014the first to be made by a private rocket company for astronauts to wear into orbit and beyond, which he hopes will go into use in 2017.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;We&#8217;re trying to have a good balance between aesthetics and functionality,&#8221; he explains, sitting in his office at SpaceX. &#8220;It&#8217;s tricky to have something that works in reality and looks good.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As with much of what Musk does, there is a plan, but then, behind that, there&#8217;s often a bigger plan. To Musk, it&#8217;s obvious that this new space suit not only needs to work well but also needs to look cool, because he needs people\u2014regular people like you and me\u2014to imagine themselves wearing it.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a NASA video about new\u00a0spacesuit designs that the agency is developing: &#8212; Elon Musk\u00a0talks in this interview about the spacesuits that\u00a0SpaceX is designing for the company&#8217;s astronauts who\u00a0will fly in the Crew Dragon vehicle:\u00a0How Elon Musk Plans on Reinventing the World (and Mars) &#8211; GQ .. And so this Monday evening, his mind is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11928\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: New spacesuit designs<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living-in-space","category-spaceflight-parabolic-flight"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-36o","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20250,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=20250","url_meta":{"origin":11928,"position":0},"title":"Space settlement roundup \u2013 Nov.14.2019","author":"TopSpacer","date":"November 14, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"A sampling of recent articles, videos, and images related to human expansion into the solar system (see also previous space settlement postings): ** A settlement on Mars has always been the primary goal for SpaceX. 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