Preda Designs Space Clothing For Artemis III Mission To The Moon's South Pole

JAKARTA - Italy's top fashion house Prada announced a collaboration with Axiom Space, the world's first commercial space station maker.

Departing from this collaboration, Prada will develop spacesuits for NASA's Artemis III space mission to the Moon which is scheduled for 2025.

The clothes will be used for the first landing on the Moon, since the Apollo 17 mission in December 1972. It will also be the first to place a woman on the Moon.

"We are excited to partner with Prada in the Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AxEMu) spacesuit," said Michael Suffredini, chief executive of Axiom Space, as reported by The National News 10 October.

"Prada's technical expertise in raw materials, manufacturing techniques and innovative design concepts will present advanced technologies that play an important role in ensuring not only the convenience of astronauts on the lunar surface, but also considerations of human factors that were desperately needed that were not present in previous spacesuits," explained Suffredini.

To make these clothes, the Axiom Space team and engineers Prada will work together to fully redesign existing clothes, using advanced design materials and features.

The clothes will be more user-friendly, while protecting crews from the space environment and unfriendly lunar surfaces, the company said.

"Our decades-long experience, cutting-edge technology and design knowledge will now be applied to spacesuit designs for the Artemis era. This is a true celebration of the power of creativity and human innovation to advance civilization," said Lorenzo Bertelli, marketing director of the Prada group.

It is known, the temperature in space is an average of minus 270$C, so these clothes are very important to maintain the body temperature of the crew of the right ship, as well as offer important protection from radiation.

In addition to supplying oxygen to astronauts, the clothing will also protect them from spacedust, which consists of tiny pieces of rock that move many times faster than bullets.

The current spacesuit is heavy and impractical, causing a physical impact on the wearer. It is hoped that the new material developed will help solve some of these problems, giving the crew greater freedom of movement, which in turn will have an impact on exploration and experimentation.

Planned for 2025, this mission is also the first mission to the South Pole of the Moon that has never been explored before.

Axiom Space operates an end-to-end mission to the International Space Station, and is developing its successor, the Axiom Station, which will be the world's first commercial space station in low Earth orbit.