The fashion and home d\u00e9cor industry has, for years, looked toward space for inspiration. Prada is a brand that\u2019s pushing through to be the first luxury fashion house to inspire space travel instead. For its new adventure in space, Prada has designed an inner-layer garment that astronauts aboard the NASA Artemis headed for the Moon will wear underneath their space suits.<\/p>\n
For some fashion enthusiasts, this could come as a surprise, but the fact is, Prada has been working for a few years now with Axiom Space. Axiom is a private company that NASA has partnered with to develop spacesuits for its astronauts to wear on the upcoming Artemis missions.<\/p>\n
Designer: Prada<\/a> x Axiom Space<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Axiom Space and Prada first unveiled<\/a> the Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AxEMU), a next-generation spacesuit, in 2024. \u201cAxEMU is the first major upgrade to NASA\u2019s space suits in more than 20 years,\u201d and it is designed for NASA\u2019s Artemis III mission and beyond. Now, believing the astronauts need a way to keep cool and oxygenated within the bulky space suit when on the lunar surface, Prada has introduced the garment to wear under the space suit, which has been part of the design process.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n With the company\u2019s signature red stripe on the sleeve, which is apparent on Prada\u2019s activewear collection, the onesie called the Liquid Cooling Ventilation Garment (LCVG) will go under the space suit, as an innerwear (we cannot comment whether astronauts will need another layer of innerwear underneath). The LCVG is provided with tubes running around the back, which are used to circulate cold water around the astronaut\u2019s body. The entire thing is designed in a high fashion sense, so the onesie is sleek and a complete wear in itself.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Designed primarily to keep the astronaut\u2019s body from overheating while they walk on the moon, it is also provided with a ventilation system to deliver oxygen and remove carbon dioxide formed inside the AxEMU. Talking about the convenience and benefits of this finely crafted innerwear, the senior vice president of spacecrafts at Axiom Space informs, \u201cEvery minute astronauts spend outside their (lunar) vehicle, the LCVG is working to keep them safe.\u201d Axiom\u2019s CEO and president, Jonathan Cirtain, pointed out that the LCVG \u201c\u2026manages their (astronauts\u2019) thermal environment, supports their breathing, and does it all while they\u2019re pushing their bodies to the limit.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n NASA hopes to carry out the Artemis III mission, a crewed test flight, the second such mission in the Artemis lunar exploration program in 2027. And then eventually make the first crewed landing on the Moon\u2019s south pole in preceding missions by early 2028. The Artemis campaign is NASA\u2019s human spaceflight mission to land American astronauts on the surface of the Moon, establish a sustainable presence on the lunar surface, and form a foundation for future manned missions to the Red Planet.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The post Prada designs a hidden Onesie that could keep NASA\u2019s Artemis astronauts alive on the Moon<\/a> first appeared on Yanko Design<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The fashion and home d\u00e9cor industry has, for years, looked toward space for inspiration. Prada is a brand that\u2019s pushing through to be the first luxury fashion house to inspire space travel instead. For its new adventure in space, Prada has designed an inner-layer garment that astronauts aboard the NASA Artemis headed for the Moon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n