#372: Spacesuits‪!‬ Tech Policy Podcast

Ryan Scirocco is the spacesuit business development lead at Collins Aerospace. Collins, an RTX business, is, along with its partners ILC Dover and Oceaneering, developing a new generation of spacesuits for NASA. Ryan discusses everything that goes into keeping people alive in a freezing zero-gravity vacuum far outside the biosphere.

Topics include:

- A spacesuit is a mini-spaceship
- Space: it wants to kill you
- Spacesuit history
- What’s new? No more mirrors!
- Testing spacesuits on the vomit comet
- The ISS, the Moon, and beyond

Links:

Collins Aerospace Completes Key Spacesuit Testing Milestone (https://tinyurl.com/3nphfunp)

Space Symposium (https://tinyurl.com/yh27xsfc)

Tech Policy Podcast #349: The State of Space Exploration (https://tinyurl.com/yns72nwm)