Houston, we have a podcast. Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space Center,

episode 16, Space Suits. I'm Gary Jordan and I'll be your host today. So if you're new to the show,

this is where we bring in NASA experts,

scientists, engineers, astronauts, all to tell you the coolest parts about what's going on here

at NASA.

So Ali UP on Twitter is asking if we can do an episode on Space Suits.

Well, thanks for your suggestion Ali Upe. Let's do it.

Today we're talking Space Suits with Les Padilla.

He's the EMU Hardware Manager at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston Texas.

And that just means he manages the hardware on those classic white spacesuits you see when you think about astronauts.

We had a great discussion about how those spacesuits work, what they're made of, how they've evolved over time, and what they'll look like in the future.

So with no further delay, let's go light speed and jump right ahead to our talk with Mr. Les Padilla.

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Mark.

There's a lot. Mark. I like to explain to others I feel like a kid at the candy store when they ask about it.

Yeah. It is all supposed to see the past where it came from and the future designs where we may be

headed towards. That's right and that's what we're going to talk about today. All of those things. So I hope you I see you have like a large binder of notes. It's actually one page is fine. But yeah, so we're going to talk about it all today. So first of all, spacesuits. Let's start from like the

overarching like what is a spacesuit? Why do you need a spacesuit? I think the

closest thing that I've been described is like think of it like like a

spaceship that's shaped like a human body is that is that kind of right?

That's a fantastic description right there.

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