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Civilian Tries on NASA Spacesuit For the First Time | WIRED

How does WIRED’s Brent Rose feel about being the first person outside of the space program to try on a pressurized space suit? “The geekiest kid, in the nerdiest candy store in the universe!” Watch as Brent tries on and shows off the newest in space suit technologies with the help of ILC Dover, the…

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How does WIRED’s Brent Rose feel about being the first person outside of the space program to try on a pressurized space suit? “The geekiest kid, in the nerdiest candy store in the universe!” Watch as Brent tries on and shows off the newest in space suit technologies with the help of ILC Dover, the company that makes these human-sized space ships.

Director: Wendi Jonassen
Director of Photography: Jim Zura
Senior Editor: Brady Jackson
Host: Brent Rose
Talent: Daniel Klopp, Greg Muller

Producer: Adam Davis-McGee
Line Producer: Joseph Buscemi
Associate Producer: Melissa Cho
Production Manager: Eric Martinez
Production Coordinator: Fernando Davila

Audio: Jeremy Lane
Cam Op: Billy Stewart
Production Assistant/Grip: Mitchel Earley

Post Production Supervisor: Alexa Deutsch
Post Production Coordinator: Ian Bryant
Supervising Editor: Doug Larsen
Junior Editor: Paul Tael
Assistant Editor: Billy Ward

Special Thanks: NASA Johnson Space Center, ILC Dover

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51 Comments

  1. Night Storm

    September 14, 2022 at 4:35 pm

    Moon walk never happened!

    • babecat2000

      September 14, 2022 at 11:36 pm

      It is on film get a life you are so disrespectful to Michael Jackson

    • Night Storm

      September 14, 2022 at 11:44 pm

      @babecat2000 Yes, could be filmed in a studio like any movie. Why haven’t any astronauts been to the moon in decades?? Just shows you it was never done.

  2. Liquid Flames

    September 14, 2022 at 4:36 pm

    “It’s like being born all over again. Push, mom!”

    “Ya _had_ to make it weird, didn’t ya?”

    • First Last

      September 14, 2022 at 7:23 pm

      exactly

    • Cringeginge

      September 14, 2022 at 8:45 pm

      He made it wired

  3. Antonio Trav

    September 14, 2022 at 4:39 pm

    That dance was horrible

  4. IM_ agine

    September 14, 2022 at 4:54 pm

    AWESOME FREAKIN VIDEO. Thank you….you rock

  5. THE AVENGERS

    September 14, 2022 at 5:02 pm

    Hope to travel to space one day

  6. Max L

    September 14, 2022 at 5:02 pm

    this guys cringe

  7. gfunkpalace1

    September 14, 2022 at 5:14 pm

    So this company makes space suits… that NASA didn’t buy, and has no plans to buy. This is like the group MARS ONE that trains to go to MARS, but aren’t astronauts, or pilots, or assigned to any vehicles. These suits aren’t that far off legitimate NASA or ROSCOSMOS suits, but they aren’t the same either.

    • LZWEHDKE

      September 14, 2022 at 11:06 pm

      Definitely feeling a hype advertorial like those Netflix and HBO biography/documentary pieces which are just funded by the people who want it (see: Michael Jordan)

  8. Gordatados

    September 14, 2022 at 5:16 pm

    It only took them 60 yrs to slightly improve the suits.

  9. thousand points of light

    September 14, 2022 at 5:25 pm

    astronauts are highly overrated, mediocre at best.

    • babecat2000

      September 14, 2022 at 11:36 pm

      Jealous much?

  10. Aterhallsam

    September 14, 2022 at 5:55 pm

    Think about how big percentage of the people that have worn one of these have died shortly after. I mean, compared to a pair of Levis.

  11. Christy Li

    September 14, 2022 at 6:06 pm

    Oh my god wow and this is actually unreal and#FREEUKRAINE

  12. Izzy May IS ready 👌🥂

    September 14, 2022 at 6:12 pm

    Fun Fact: A standard space suit cost’s a whomping $1 million dollar’s.

  13. America Alt

    September 14, 2022 at 6:49 pm

    Those blue helmets look like tanker helmets

  14. Eugenio Renaldo

    September 14, 2022 at 6:56 pm

    The engineer on the left when putting the suit on, who takes himself way too seriously, is not having it. Please someone tells him to relax. It won’t kill his precious status.

  15. Lin Yen Chin

    September 14, 2022 at 7:40 pm

    Why would you drop your modern “jokes~humour” on senile professionals who’ve converted all their imagination aka “fluid intelligence” into mere intellect aka “crystallized intelligence”?

    *They are the living dead,* also ruled by insecurity about liability and are impatient with things they can’t understand.
    Why test these *mere intellectuals* with your attempt to make yourself feel comfortable via use of “humour”?
    It’s as if your habit of trying too hard is also devouring your intelligence as insecurity has devoured the humanity of every other intellectual.

  16. Lin Yen Chin

    September 14, 2022 at 7:43 pm

    9:36 “Uh-law-dove-e-ut e-uz pro-sea-dure-ull”-!?… The idiot means *a lot of it is procedure,* it’s to stupid to realize procedure alresdy suffices to convey his exact intent withiut redundant conjunction into “procedural.” Nouth-breathers are stupid like that; inflated lexicon and wrong sense of syntax as they ramble on broken impulse rather than mindfully phrasing their exact intent.

  17. M i Α vℓσg gσ тσ му ¢haηηєℓ!

    September 14, 2022 at 8:38 pm

    Hope to travel to space one day

  18. Touch. Me. I Will Turn You 🔞

    September 14, 2022 at 9:08 pm

    Had no idea there were so many layers to the suit

  19. Mega Mocha

    September 14, 2022 at 9:11 pm

    The old suits looked cooler

  20. AngelCatGaming

    September 14, 2022 at 9:54 pm

    “You’re not funny”

  21. Sudstah Gaming

    September 14, 2022 at 10:53 pm

    Still a long way to go with space suits nevermind the rockets and ships

  22. valenpam

    September 14, 2022 at 11:13 pm

    Now kids, remember to wind up the spring locks.

  23. H -RA

    September 15, 2022 at 1:24 am

    So… This is the final product? I don’t see much changed….

    Sure it’s better.

    Looks very attractive.
    Might even have a chance to make a space baby who knows.

    Why can’t space x let us see the blueprints and make a variation knock off like certain countries do to us. Or are we just to stubborn. Cause if we are I’m ok with that.

    Please someone donate an AI or 3 designer class to NASA with a formidable 3D printers, that’s plural.

  24. D Lee

    September 15, 2022 at 3:49 am

    Uber kewl

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    September 15, 2022 at 4:07 am

    AWESOME FREAKIN VIDEO. Thank you….you rock

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    September 15, 2022 at 4:38 am

    AWESOME FREAKIN VIDEO. Thank you….you rock

  27. mickeylodeon18

    September 15, 2022 at 5:43 am

    He’s not funny at all. Stop trying please

  28. Stas Vas

    September 15, 2022 at 6:53 am

    Интересно, как теперь американцы будут летать без русских двигателей. Космическая станция также не может адекватно работать без русских. Только и остаётся – примерять скафандры на земле)))))

  29. Rainer

    September 15, 2022 at 7:45 am

    Cool Video and impressive space suit, although i prefer the russian orlan design (big door in the back). Oh and Polaris Dawn (civilian EVA) is slated for 12/22…so not that far of.

  30. mootopia

    September 15, 2022 at 7:54 am

    World keeps changing, but Brent is still Brent!

  31. psycleen

    September 15, 2022 at 8:17 am

    harness reality

  32. Gowerrr

    September 15, 2022 at 9:11 am

    Why was HE chosen….

  33. Islington Free News Media

    September 15, 2022 at 10:32 am

    ILC Dover made them all – really, including the Apollo mission suits? I thought they only designed them and had Playtex manufacture them.

  34. Stefano Sgro

    September 15, 2022 at 12:07 pm

    Gli americani non sono mai stati sulla luna,le caratteristiche fisiche della luna sono tali da impedire l’utilizzo delle (primitive ) tecnologie umane per decollare da lì,muoversi autonomamente ,frenare curvare etc nel vuoto assoluto.Ssulla terra i motori a razzo usano l’atmosfera come appoggio per entrare in orbita bassa,il combinato tra campo gravitazionale e velocità angolare terrestre permettono nel vuoto di salire di quota o entrare nello spazio.Sulla luna manca totalmente atmosfera e la velocità angolare è solo un ventottesimo di quella terrestre ,in pratica vi è un dominio del campo gravitazionale lunare ,che è il motivo per il quale sulla superficie lunare vi sono milioni di crateri da impatto …per questi motivi avvicinarsi alla luna è come finire dentro le sabbie mobili

  35. ellementira

    September 15, 2022 at 2:38 pm

    I don’t know what I was expecting when they got to the part about how they make them but a few ancient Singer sewing machines in a drab office is not what I pictured 😆

  36. ᵖᵗᵒᵒᵉᵞ

    September 15, 2022 at 3:13 pm

    whelp, count me out being an astronaut.. can’t bear the thought of not being able to scratch that itch

  37. neuron1618

    September 15, 2022 at 8:06 pm

    Weren’t those orange suits orange so they would be highly visible in case an unfortunate astronaut somehow ends up floating in the ocean? A blue&black color scheme seems like a slight design flaw in that regard.

  38. Calla -Live Vlog

    September 15, 2022 at 9:47 pm

    Fun Fact: A standard space suit cost’s a whomping $1 million dollar’s.

  39. Pedro Santos

    September 15, 2022 at 11:01 pm

    Awesome!!

  40. Gianna -Don’t Scroll

    September 16, 2022 at 12:46 am

    Cool Video and impressive space suit, although i prefer the russian orlan design (big door in the back). Oh and Polaris Dawn (civilian EVA) is slated for 12/22…so not that far of.

  41. MythOfEchelon

    September 16, 2022 at 12:18 pm

    Cringe..

  42. Bbbmurr

    September 16, 2022 at 4:37 pm

    So much cringe I’m going to the doctor to c if I have cancer

  43. Invox

    September 17, 2022 at 2:33 pm

    Where is my iron-man suit? That’ swhat I want to wear on/to other planets.

  44. Tim Parsons

    September 19, 2022 at 5:47 pm

    100% chance Adam Savage and Ryan Nagata are here watching this video for reference.

  45. Mlg bread cat

    September 22, 2022 at 7:02 am

    Steve

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