“Prada has considerable experience with various types of composite fabrics and may actually be able to make some real technical contributions to the outer layers of the new space suit,” according to Professor Jeffrey Hoffman, who flew five Nasa missions and has carried out four spacewalks.
Yeah, I definitely had a knee-jerk reaction to that headline but the follow-up thought was “Well, if NASA is commissioning them it’s probably with more justification than a fashion statement.”
probably the key paragraph
Yeah, I definitely had a knee-jerk reaction to that headline but the follow-up thought was “Well, if NASA is commissioning them it’s probably with more justification than a fashion statement.”
Like the uniforms when someone’s wife took over design in Space Force.
Awww, and I thought it was just about making astronauts look pretty?
Thank you for pointing this out. I also thought at first it might have been some kind of dumb marketing stunt.