Victoria's Secret Designer is Giving Private Spaceflight a Makeover - Polidicks

[quote]An unlikely duo has launched an unlikely commercial space company in an unlikely place. A former Roscosmos (that’s the Russian space agency) employee and the designer famous for crafting the Victoria’s Secret angel wings are teaming to create next-generation space suits for the commercial spaceflight industry in Brooklyn. Final Frontier Design yesterday cleared its funding goal on Kickstarter by more than $7,000, and is on its way to developing a new breed of intra-vehicular space suit. These new spacesuits are designed with the space tourism market in mind. Building on earlier iterations of spacesuits they’ve designed, Nikolay Moiseev and Ted Southern are focusing on extending the operating pressure envelope, reducing weight, and--perhaps most importantly--trimming the per suit price tag. That’s not to say it will be cheap; FFD is trying to bring a suit to market for $50,000. Still, that beats out the price of NASA’s suits by a long shot. According to their Kickstarter pitch, FFD is trying to construct their suit and put it on the way toward NASA certification by the end of the year. If they pull it off, their 3G suit could be skirting the heavens aboard commercial space vehicles within the next few years--no angel wings required. More over at Co.Design. [img]http://www.popsci.com/files/imagecache/article_image_large/articles/c9b93361eb31bf3b483b6f9d55768cdb_large.png[/img][/quote] Source: [url]http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-07/victorias-secret-wings-designer-giving-private-spaceflight-makeover[/url] Half of you reading this thread didn't come here for the science, I bet.

[IMG]http://www.ludd.ltu.se/~mcgreag/eve/clip_image001.jpg[/IMG] ?

yaaaaaay, more components of commercial space flight

I like that helmet [editline]20th July 2012[/editline] It looks cosmonaut-y

Expected spacebras.

[QUOTE=Maximum Mod;36844807]I like that helmet [editline]20th July 2012[/editline] It looks cosmonaut-y[/QUOTE]I think it's the underlying cap that makes it look like that, that sort of glass bubble helmet isn't used by either the US or Russian space agencies; since you'll need a sunshield to flip down when needed, which that doesn't seem to have.

[img]http://www.popsci.com.au/technology/space/victoria-s-secret-designer-is-giving-private-spaceflight-a-makeover-3422/c9b93361eb31bf3b483b6f9d55768cdb_large20120719173749.png[/img] Ugh please no, it looks like some stupid design from the 50's, only uglier Astronauts are meant to look cool

Yeah, seems like they were brainstorming ways to waste money and this came just above "cash-fueled dumpster fire".

[QUOTE=Maximum Mod;36844807] It looks cosmonaut-y[/QUOTE] more like cosmo-naughty

I'd just get the standard US astronaut suit and slim it down. astronauts shouldn't be wearing shiny orange and black sleeky cosmonaut shit, they should look practical and gritty. I get that they want to attract absurdly rich people who probably won't care much for that, but they're supposed to be setting a trend here. the future's gonna just look silly at this rate.

[QUOTE=mr apple;36845206][img]http://www.popsci.com.au/technology/space/victoria-s-secret-designer-is-giving-private-spaceflight-a-makeover-3422/c9b93361eb31bf3b483b6f9d55768cdb_large20120719173749.png[/img] Ugh please no, it looks like some stupid design from the 50's, only uglier Astronauts are meant to look cool[/QUOTE] "I may be able to one day venture the beauties of vast space but not unless I look cool!!"

[QUOTE=Cone;36845504]I'd just get the standard US astronaut suit and slim it down. astronauts shouldn't be wearing shiny orange and black sleeky cosmonaut shit, they should look practical and gritty. I get that they want to attract absurdly rich people who probably won't care much for that, but they're supposed to be setting a trend here. the future's gonna just look silly at this rate.[/QUOTE] The problem with current the current suits that the US uses is that they take upwards of 2 hours to don/doff. I doubt that anyone going into space in the private sector (as a tourist) wants to spend 2 hours putting on their suit. Sometime more akin to the biosuit being developed at MIT, or the Orion suits being developed by NASA (which are more similar to the Soviet/Russian "Orlan" suits rather than our own current suits) is more likely to be the next thing in EVA suits. However, the US suits have built-in snacks, drink, and even a nose-scratcher, so it's whether you want a suit that takes forever to don/doff and is practically a space-limousine, or the easy-to-put-on suit that's, well, Russian.