NASA unveils spacesuit for Artemis moon mission

So this suit's a little bit different than the suits of kind of today that's used on the space station. This is called a rear entry design or a back entry design. This hatch would open up. You would put your feet in, put your arms in and kind of shimmy down into the suit. And then we would close the hatch. The light bound is mounted to the visor assembly into the helmet bubble. And this essentially gives the astronauts lights to see whether they're in shaded portions of the moon or if they're in low earth orbit.

In a night pass they can turn on these lights to see using tools or translating on the space station or anything like that. We also have on the side here we have a HD video camera. So those of us back on spaceship earth watching the EVA will be able to watch it in high definition, which would be a fantastic upgrade. I think from current day technology, the XMU team did a tremendous job. And a lot of our teammates did a tremendous job designing those boots. One of the differences between this suit and the suit that will be on the moon is that the moon suit will mostly be white. So we'll replace all the black with white.

And that's really for thermal reasons. So didn't want anybody to get that mixed up. But other than that, I think this is just a fantastic, fantastic looking suit. There's a variety of joints that we've put as well into the lower torso assembly. And this is going to be a huge improvement over the Apollo suits. The Apollo suits didn't have many of these types of joints that we've put in this suit. So the astronauts will be more comfortable, have an easier time walking.

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