NASA Artemis III mission to moon unveils new spacesuit designed by Prada

We have broken the mold. The Axiom Space-Prada partnership has set a new foundational model for cross-industry collaboration, further expanding what’s possible in commercial space.

Yeah, yeah. Designed by Prada – darlings.

Meantime Bloomberg has watched SpaceX’s progress with Starship and decided to advise the US government to can some aspects of the Artemis program for which this suit has been designed – and I’m not talking of the Bloomberg group or the news group, but the man who founded it all, billionaire Michael Bloomberg (and 2020 Democrat candidate for President), with his personal OpEd, NASA’s $100 Billion Moon Mission Is Going Nowhere:

There are government boondoggles, and then there’s NASA’s Artemis program.

More than a half century after Neil Armstrong’s giant leap for mankind, Artemis was intended to land astronauts back on the moon. It has so far spent nearly $100 billion without anyone getting off the ground, yet its complexity and outrageous waste are still spiraling upward. The next US president should rethink the program in its entirety.

He points out the simple truth that at the rate SpaceX is advancing, NASA will likely just be able to rent Starship flights to the Moon by 2030; they’ve already purchased two Starship missions with SpaceX contracted to produce Lunar-landing capable versions of the Starship.

Which is all true, as I’ve pointed out before (NASA is Dead), even as I wished them well, but there those with suspicions about Mr Bloomberg’s… motivations:

Why this op-Ed now?

I’m sure we’ve all seen the Bloomberg attack on Artemis. Some folks who are concerned about expensive parts of the program like SLS have been praising his piece.

Bloomberg may or may not be wrong, but he has been pro-Dem, anti-Trump, anti-space and pro-China for years.

BTW, there have been various renditions of the recent SpaceX Flight Test 5 Booster catch, but this is the best I’ve seen to date.