NASA’s astronauts will wear a Prada-designed onesie to keep cool on the moon
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Fashion has officially entered the final frontier. Prada and Axiom Space have unveiled a sleek, tube-lined cooling undergarment that NASA's Artemis astronauts will wear beneath their spacesuits on the moon, complete with the Italian fashion house's signature red stripe.
The garment, called the Liquid Cooling and Ventilation Garment, circulates cold water around an astronaut's body and delivers oxygen while removing carbon dioxide, all during moonwalks that push the human body to its limits.
"The work we have done with Prada has taken that capability to a level we could not have achieved alone," said Russell Ralston, Axiom Space's senior vice president of spacecraft development.
It's the latest milestone in Prada and Axiom's ongoing collaboration, which also produced the AxEMU spacesuit, NASA's first major suit upgrade in over 20 years. The new undergarment could be tested on the International Space Station, with a moon landing targeted, perhaps optimistically, for as early as 2028.
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