Dress for Success in Space Exploration

Guest: Dava J. Newman, PhD, Apollo Program Professor of Astronautics, MIT, Faculty Member, Harvard-MIT, Health Sciences Technology, former NASA Deputy Administrator In the next couple of decades, America hopes to be sending astronauts back to the Moon and 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?