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NASA’s commercial spacesuit program just hit a major snag (arstechnica.com)

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If NASA were to re-open competition, one of the bidders could be SpaceX, which has already designed a basic spacesuit to support the private Polaris Dawn mission.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

The SpaceX ones are privately funded, so who cares if the first generation of them sucks? At least they're trying and might have a path to success.