NASA has selected a company to design and outfit new spacesuits made specifically for lunar exploration. The Constellation Space Suit System contract, announced last week, is a critical step in sending a manned mission to the moon for the first time since Apollo 17 in 1972.
“We’ve now got all of our prime contracts in place,” said Jeff Hanley, manager for the Constellation program at Houston’s Johnson Space Center. He said he expects to have American astronauts “on [the] moon by end of the next decade.”
(via abc news)
