Dress for Success in Space Exploration

(Originally aired October 3, 2018) Guest: Dava J. Newman, PhD, Apollo Program Professor of Astronautics, MIT, faculty member in Harvard-MIT Health Sciences Technology, former NASA Deputy Administrator Within the next twenty years America hopes to send astronauts back to the Moon and then on to Mars. But before they launch, they’ll need to update their wardrobe. The spacesuits NASA has currently won’t cut it for these kinds of long missions and for walking around on Mars. So how does a space agency do a fashion makeover?