Why Spacesuits are so expensive?

 

NASA’s present fleet of spacesuits was built in 1974, each was reported to price between $15 million and $22 million, and today, that would be approximately $150 million.

Having not built any new mission-ready extravehicular suits since then, NASA is running out of spacesuits. Rather, NASA is down to just four flight-ready EVA suits. Since 2009, NASA has invested above $200 million in spacesuit development, recently uncovering the Xemu prototype for its Artemis program, which intends to take humans back to the surface of the moon by 2024, with an objective to eventually go to Mars.

We all are familiar with the scenario. Somebody has to go outside the space vehicle to do something heroic. Quite dangerous to imagine. Also need a suit, a spacesuit, and there's always a room full of racks of outer space-specific fashion and gear, just waiting. On it goes, out they go, mission usually accomplished heroically.

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