You might think that when humanity is ingenious enough to build ships capable of taking it into space, or even to the Moon, making the spacesuits that will allow astronauts to survive the vacuum and extreme temperatures is not the most complicated or expensive thing to do…
“The stewardship will follow,” one might be tempted to think. In fact, this is not the case. And a good part of the challenge that Elon Musk’s teams had to take on for the Polaris Dawn mission consisted of designing, manufacturing and testing in the laboratory the suit that the four members of the crew will wear. And which, in Elon Musk’s eyes, prefigures the one that will be equipped, tomorrow, the Earthlings setting off to attack the Red Planet.
