Nicholas de Monchaux on Space Suits of the Future in Pacific Standard
In a recent article by the Pacific Standard, Nicholas de Monchaux is featured to discuss the future of space suits. Nicholas is an expert on the design and implementation of space suits and author of Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo.
From the article:
"A business suit adapts you to a meeting, a swimsuit adapts you to a pool, a space suit adapts you for space—and transforms you as a result into literally an angel, in the classical sense," de Monchaux says. Even 50 years after Neil Armstrong's first steps on the moon, we're still obsessed with space and exploration, whether in fact or fiction, and space suits are a convenient entry point into that obsession: They allow us to imagine ourselves as angels, out there in the dark.
Nicholas de Monchaux discusses the significance of a suit that embodies both practicality and fantasy.
To read more about the future of space suits, read the article here!