New spacesuit by Boeing: First look at the suit that will take astronauts to ISS

"All-right, let's start with the feet and work our way up. These are very light-weight, you can roll them up and stow them safely when she gets into space, but they were built in collaboration with Reebok, so, and they've actually put some branding on it for us, so you see how see how the color sort of tapers into the color of the suit."

Just so tacky. A sign of times to come?

(Yeah, I'm sure the marketing and financial departments of Reebok/Adidas did a lot of collaboration with Boeing to pull this off.)

Side-note: from an outside observer this seems like just another way the United States is selling off/diluting its brand in the rest of the world. Have some pride in what you do!

The story behind the original Apollo space suits is great[0]. All the top aerospace and defense contracting companies were bested by a Playtex (the bra and girdle company), which had more experience designing high performance clothing than anyone else in the 1950's and 1960's much to the embarrassment of the ex-military space flight types. Add in the designers breaking into offices to steal back their own designs to make the suits and I can't figure out why this never made it into a movie.

[0] https://www.wired.com/2011/02/pl_spacesuits_showdown/

https://www.wired.com/2017/01/boeings-new-spacesuit-may-look... is better

I like how it can rapidly deflate and still be something practical that the astronauts can wear comfortably while indoors. Very clever. Almost makes me wish that we could move towards a society where fashion was irrelevant in consideration to function, and we could all walk around in multipurpose jumpsuits like this.

Here's Boeing's press release and video on the subject. (no paywall, or crazy adds) http://www.boeing.com/features/2017/01/space-suit-01-17.page

> first look

Except the site is so completely riddled with JavaScript errors from failing to handle localStorage properly that the video atop the article fails to load entirely. All of which could be avoided with a simple <img> tag. (Or even a <video> tag or whatever HTML5 added, but no, the video is a <div><script></div>)