Topic: EMU spacesuit at National Air and Space Museum
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 55196 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 09-08-2025 09:37 AM
In 2007, I wrote an article for this site about how NASA's plans were for all of the flown extravehicular mobility unit (EMU) spacesuits to reach their end of life aboard the International Space Station and be destroyed on reenty. As such, no flown suits (or the parts to assemble such) were expected to be available for museum display.
Fortunately, those plans changed. As this Tested.com video shows, the National Air and Space Museum has recently taken delivery from NASA many of the parts they need to assemble an EMU for display. Additional components, such as the helmet-mounted camera assembly, will need to be replicated or omitted from he exhibit.
posted 09-08-2025 09:37 AM
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