NASA Now Minute: Engineering: Spacesuits

Mallory Jennings, a Technology Development Engineer who develops components for the next-generation spacesuit, explains how the design for the spacesuit is dependent upon the mission that the astronauts need to complete in space. She describes how astronauts train to work in the suits and the function of each layer of the current model of spacesuit. NASA Now Minutes are excerpts from a weekly current events program available for classroom use at the NASA Explorer Schools Virtual Campus located ...