Houston, we have a podcast.

Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space Center,

episode 120 Artemis spacesuits.

I'm Gary Jordan. I'll be your host today.

On this podcast, we bring in the experts, scientists, engineers, astronauts, all to let you know what's going on in the

world of human spaceflight.

So on October 15, 2019, NASA unveiled the next generation of spacesuits that will take humans to the Moon with

NASA's Artemis program. I say spacesuits plural because there are two, one for

getting to the moon and back and one for exploring the surface of the moon.

The Orion Crew Survival suit does exactly what it sounds like.

Helps the crew survive in Orion, the deep space capsule,

that will transport the crew to and from the moon.

But there are many layers to that, and a lot of interesting technologies added to the

space suit that you might not have thought about.

Then there's the X-E-M-U that will be used on the moon's surface.

For those familiar with human spaceflight or those who have listened to our space suits episode,

episode, episode 16, hint, hint, you might recognize the extra vehicular mobility unit in there,

the EMU. This is the suit used for spacewalks on the space station today.

The X in front is for exploration.

Sure, the name looks a little bit of the same, but there are a lot of differences that makes this suit the

right one for the moon. So here to go into great detail about each of these suits

and what we have to look forward to is Chris Hansen. Chris is the manager of

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