#372: Spacesuits!

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Ryan Scirocco is the spacesuit business development lead at Collins Aerospace. Collins, an RTX business, is, along with its partners ILC Dover and Oceaneering, developing a new generation of spacesuits for NASA. Ryan discusses everything that goes into keeping people alive in a freezing zero-gravity vacuum far outside the biosphere. Topics include: - A spacesuit is a mini-spaceship - Space: it wants to kill you - Spacesuit history - What’s new? No more mirrors! - Testing spacesuits on the vomit comet - The ISS, the Moon, and beyond Links: Collins Aerospace Completes Key Spacesuit Testing Milestone (https://tinyurl.com/3nphfunp) Space Symposium (https://tinyurl.com/yh27xsfc) Tech Policy Podcast #349: The State of Space Exploration (https://tinyurl.com/yns72nwm)