Space, and What to Wear There

Show

Morning Magazine,

Presenter

Bren McGurk

Published

Monday 26th October

It sounds like a futuristic fairytale… an Australian University is working on spacesuits for a NASA-planned mission to the moon and beyond…

The next generation spacesuits, developed by Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Post-doctoral scholar Doctor James Waldie solve one of the major problems faced by astronauts – bone deterioration.

Doctor Waldie is also working on light, flexible skin-spacesuits for walking on Mars!

Sounds all a little sci-fi … or is the technology closer than we think?
Bren McGurk boldy spoke to James Waldie on Morning Magazine.