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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNot for nothing, i hate SpaceX's space suits. They're stupid AF-looking.
Exhibit A - Badass:Exhibit B - WTF?
It occurred to me where I'd seen those suits before:
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)A HERETIC I AM
(24,365 posts)of a 1960's Japanese monster movie!
Well, as long and they're functional, I suppose.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,831 posts)wcmagumba
(2,883 posts)except for the first aid kits on their chest...
Victor_c3
(3,557 posts)dalton99a
(81,433 posts)blm
(113,040 posts)rockfordfile
(8,701 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,889 posts)TreadSoftly
(219 posts)Marvel stuff, I think. From https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/astronauts-test-out-their-new-flight-suits-180972882/
Chelsea Gohd at Space.com reports that when SpaceX founder Elon Musk debuted the suit design on Instagram in 2017, the response to the sleek, futuristic looking suit was fairly positive. The spacesuit was designed by Hollywood costume designer Jose Fernandez, who created the superhero costumes for Wonder Woman, Wolverine and Captain America: Civil War.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,166 posts)Shermann
(7,411 posts)Their buddy got lost in ankle-deep water and they sort of wrote him off right away and blasted off without him.
lapfog_1
(29,199 posts)had better looking suits... from 1968
uponit7771
(90,335 posts)BannonsLiver
(16,352 posts)The capsule looks like a ride at Disney, the uniforms look stupid and Musks involvement as an evil libertarian super villain casts a pall over all of it.
Crunchy Frog
(26,579 posts)BannonsLiver
(16,352 posts)PCIntern
(25,518 posts)Fugly suits!
rusty fender
(3,428 posts)hedda_foil
(16,371 posts)Talitha
(6,581 posts)Funky-looking, I agree.
But if everything we're seeing today means we'll be
launching from the USA again, I'm all for it.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)Talitha
(6,581 posts)Novel way to climb into it, I must say...
Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)They look like cheap costumes, like $10 made in Bangladesh fare, I know that is specific and we in the USA are normalizing vagueness, but today only, FUCK THAT?
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)To each his own I guess 🤷🏻?♂️
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)but overall I like the sleek, uncluttered look of these uniforms. They look as though they'll be easier to wear and work in.
BannonsLiver
(16,352 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)USALiberal
(10,877 posts)Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)Polly Hennessey
(6,793 posts)Duppers
(28,117 posts)👍
Duppers
(28,117 posts)USALiberal
(10,877 posts)cbdo2007
(9,213 posts)them on, but they do look a little clunky on these guys.
BootinUp
(47,139 posts)Shermann
(7,411 posts)...and we're laughing at them?
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)But everyone seems to think they are cool. Not me.
DashOneBravo
(2,679 posts)Anything beats those blaze orange hunting coveralls
Chainfire
(17,526 posts)really stands out if you intend to get fished out of the ocean after a mishap.
DashOneBravo
(2,679 posts)Im sure its easier to spot with waves and helicopter spray being blown up from the water.
Theyve just ugly.
hunter
(38,309 posts)Space will be the realm of our intellectual offspring.
Natural humans are just too damned fragile.
Mars will be colonized by people who can run around naked on its surface all day.
If we are kind to them maybe they'll allow us to visit.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)or Vogue did get involved, they'd have to work with what they're given. Heard the inside of the rocket looks like a Tesla, though, and those make me think of auto upholstery.
lpbk2713
(42,751 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)What's with the Wellington looking boots? Looks like my gardening boots except Wellies have no zippers).
Will they be walking in mud or high water at some point on the space station? If so, those zippers will be a bad idea.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)They remind me of the suits used in 2001 A Space Odyssey, a little bit, and I thought those suits were way more cool than what astronauts were using at the time.
nolabear
(41,959 posts)In case they run into puddles.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)They look really uncomfortable and confining as hell! The men cant turn their heads at all or even to get a crick out of their necks. And white? Why white?! And why footware that looks like rubber gardening galoshes?! Are they expecting a flood?