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In an Aug. 10 report, NASA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) said the next-generation spacesuit the agency is developing for the Artemis program, known as the Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU), won’t be ready for flight until at least April 2025, and may be subject to further delays.
Sure. I'll bet the government contracted suits will carry a fresh scent of pork.
"NASA, though, announced earlier this year it would follow a commercial services approach for spacesuits, paying to use suits developed by companies, who will be encouraged but not required to use technologies developed for the xEMU."
To me, NASA's subtext is - Put a commercial contract out for bids, watch SpaceX win it because they may be working on a planetary suit anyway. They won the HLS contract and can build a suit without a mass-budget constraint in their huge ship. If anyone has a chance of delivering by 2024 it's SpaceX - no multiple subcontractors.
Every subcontractor in a supply chain is another potential failure point for a schedule delay.
It’s going to be very interesting watching how this plays out.
I’d really like to see other contractors step up competitively but they can’t.
We all know where these suits will be coming from.
It would be nice if other contractors can learn how to operate like Spacex so we don’t have all our cookies in one basket.
These days are similar to the early days of automobiles and it’s pretty darn exciting.
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