Beyond the fact that Hollywood costume ... astronaut [Soichi Noguchi], Mission Specialist on the first operational Crew Dragon flight and a current occupant of the International Space Station ...
That's because they were designed by a costume designer -- Jose Fernandez ... flying up suitable Dragon-connecting space suits for the two astronauts on a later mission, should Starliner be ...
Most recently, the NASA astronauts who have gone to the space station wore Russian Sokol suits, since the US had ... that Musk tapped Jose Fernandez, a costume designer for superhero movies ...
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Today’s high-tech spacesuit materials are a far cry from the cotton and rubber used by early high-altitude pilots. This story appears in the July 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine.