NASA Astronauts Will Wear Antidust Space Clothing While On The Moon

NASA ensures spacesuits for the Artemis mission are safe from the Moon dust issue (photo: dock. NASA)

JAKARTA - The United States (NASA) Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) provided US$50,000 (Rp793 million) to Hawaii's I Pacific University (HPU) to make a spacesuit prototype.

The prototype to be used is capable of warding off dust, citing Space. In addition, the prototype of the cloth used will make users flexible because it can be stretched.

This prototype cloth will be made electrostatically by HPU. With this design, corrosive lunar dust is expected not to stick to clothes and particles will not damage clothes.

A number of technologies developed in NASA's latest spacesuit are called Liquid Metal Electrostatic Protective Textile (LiqMEST). This technology is expected to address the dust problem that Apollo astronauts have experienced during the moon.

Saat misi Apollo berlangsung di tahun 1960-an, para astronaut begitu kesulitan karena debu tajam yang menempuh. Debu-dust ini merusak beberapa bagian pada peraya mereka, bahkan menempak di mana pun.

This dust problem also hampered the lunar exploration mission, even the three-day mission was so difficult. Of course NASA doesn't want to repeat the same thing on the mission towards the next month.

NASA plans to stage the Artemis III mission, land astronauts back on the moon, in 2025 or 2026. For this reason, HPU only has two to three years to design its clothes.