NASA: Will it cancel some of space programs due to spacesuit problems? Why did water leak during spacewalk outside ISS?
astronaut Tracy Dyson's spacesuit 31 minutes into a spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) earlier this week, she was put in a terrifying scenario. The leak prompted Dyson and fellow astronaut Mike Barratt to abort their mission, which prompted the onboard team to look into the problem. Considering that NASA's existing spacesuit design is based on the Space Shuttle Program from the 1980s, this tragic event emphasized the critical need for new suits, as reported by 'Yahoo News'.
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Failures in development of Spacesuits
There are many obstacles in the way of NASA's plans to work with the private space industry to build new spacesuits. As per the reports of Space News, Collins Aerospace stopped work on the replacement spacesuit for the International Space Station (ISS). Collins Aerospace was chosen by NASA in June 2022 to design new suits for the ISS and Artemis trips to the Moon. Collins Aerospace declared it is abandoning the project, even though a prototype suit was successfully tested in February. NASA reported that Collins acknowledged its development timeline did not accommodate the ISS schedule and mission requirements.
The project was abandoned by Collins Aerospace for unspecified reasons. As per the reports of 'Yahoo News', experts in the field speculate that Collins could not have been able to pay for the fixed-price contract because of delays and
