The Spacesuit Privatization Blues

[Grumblenuts]

NASA tries to be nice, offering to help out some private manufacturers and just look what happens after a decade or three:

Elon Musk offers for SpaceX to make NASA spacesuits, after watchdog says program to cost $1 billion

Elon Musk offered SpaceX's services to help NASA make its next-generation spacesuits.

www.cnbc.com

 

[Moonglow]

They will utilize the most advanced features while offering a sleek line of sexuality.

 

[Manonthestreet]

NASA is a shadow of it's former self

 

[Pete7469]

 

[Canon Shooter]

This will always be my idea of a space suit; the one Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins wore...

 

[Moonglow]

This will always be my idea of a space suit; the one Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins wore...

Looks a little tight in the crotch area.

 

[idb]

Apparently the Bezos suits make you look like a bit of a dick.

 

[Dekster]

IDK but the ones NASA uses must be made from some tough stuff. I read somewhere that someone found a helmet with the head still in it from one of the astronauts in whatever shuttle blew up over Texas.