Collins Aerospace selected to produce next-generation spacesuits for NASA
BPC Staff Jun 3, 2022 | 3:05 pm
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83 wordsAll Latest News, Manufacturing, Statewide NewsCorridor Business Journal: Collins Aerospace, along with partners ILC Dover and Oceaneering, has been selected to produce NASA’s next-generation spacesuit, which astronauts could wear when working outside the International Space Station and – within the next decade – on the moon. Collins Aerospace, a division of Raytheon Technologies with locations in Cedar Rapids and Coralville, designed the first spacesuit that allowed astronauts to walk on the moon, as well as the suit NASA astronauts currently use when operating outside the International Space Station.