[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] NASA's current spacesuits, used for spacewalks aboard the International Space Station (ISS), were originally designed more than 50 years ago and have not undergone a major redesign in at least two decades, raising growing safety concerns about their long-term reliability.
The Apollo-era suits used during the Moon landings of the 1960s and 1970s are no longer suitable for modern missions, meaning entirely new systems are required before astronauts can safely explore the lunar surface again.
The findings come as the agency prepares for one of the most ambitious spaceflight efforts in decades, sending astronauts back to the lunar surface for the first time since 1972. |