And now, the moment you've
all been waiting for.
All right. Good morning.
My name is Russell Wilson.
I'm the deputy program manager
of UBA at Axiom Space. In the suit
here this morning is Jim Stein. Jim is
an extraordinary engineer because
our chief engineer on our team.
So we gave him the honors. Go ahead.
We we gave Jim the honors of
demonstrating the suit this morning.
I'm going to give him this,
this little walking staff here we are in
earth gravity. We're not on the moon
if anybody doesn't know. On the moon,
the gravity is about 1/6 of what it is here.
So just in case Jim loses his balance,
safety reasons want him to have that.
But so I'm going to talk through
the suit design just very briefly.
And as I do that Jimping performs
in different actions, mobility to
demonstrate the mobility of the suit.
Before you.
Before you get into that,
I want to talk about this cover layer,
so the cover layer that you see.
The the black, the orange, the blue.
Personally I think this looks amazing.
I want to thank Esther Marquis for
helping us design this.
Esther is a designer spacesuit designer
on the show for all mankind if anyone
has seen that on Apple TV plus so so
this suit has a lot of that worked into this.
One of the differences between
this suit and the suit that will
be on the moon is that it will the
moon suit will mostly be white.
So we'll replace all the black with white
and that's really for thermal reasons.
So didn't want anybody to
to get that mixed up.
But other than that I think
this is just a fantastic.
Fantastic looking suit.
So let me let me go top to bottom here
and just describe the suit overall.
So we'll start with a light band.
I think you guys saw the lights as
Jim walked out on stage on the light
band is mounted to the visor assembly
into the helmet bubble and this,
this essentially gives the astronauts
lights to see where they're in shaded
portions of the moon or if they're
in low Earth orbit in a night pass.
They can turn on these lights to see
using tools or translating on the
space station or anything like that.
We also have on the side here we have ADHD.
Video camera.
So those of us back on spaceship
Earth watching the VA will be able
to watch it in high definition,
which will be a fantastic upgrade I
think from from current date technology.
All of this is mounted on the helmet bubble,
which is amounted to what we call
in this configuration of our suit,
the hard upper torso.
So the hard upper torso goes roughly
from Jim's waist up to the top.
And this is kind of the core
structure of the suit,
it's what we attach everything to.
So the arms,
we'll talk about the backpack in a minute.
So yeah,
if Jim wants to demonstrate
some of the arm mobility here,
this really just provides us again some
structured amount things to each of
the arms have a variety of mobility,
joints and elements that we've designed
at Axiom. Including the gloves.
The gloves are a critical part
of the suit design,
especially for microgravity Evas
where you're using them for hours
at a time to translate,
to operate tools to,
you know,
fix things to the suit and so on.
So we put a ton of effort into those gloves,
pretty, pretty proud of where they're at,
and we're confident those are
going to perform very well.
If Jim turns to the side here,
some people may be wondering,
how do you even get in this suit?
There's a hatch on the back.
Actually, you can see two hinges here.
So this suits a little bit
different than the suits.
Of kind of today that's
used in the space station.
So this is called a rear entry
design or a back entry design.
This hatch would open up,
you would put your feet in,
put your arms in and and kind
of shimmy down into the suit and
then we would close the Hatch.
Mounted to the Hatch is this box
affectionately known as the backpack.
We call it the the portable
Life support system.
So inside of this box are all the parts
and the components to keep to kind
of keep you alive while you're doing Eva.
You can think of it as like a
very fancy scuba tank and air
conditioner kind of combined into one,
so on the lower torso.
So let's start kind of from the waist
going down to the to the boots.
I'll let Jim do some squats and
lunges and and and just show off
some of the some of the mobility.
That the suit has some
demonstration different movements.
There's a variety of joints that
we've put as well into the lower torso
assembly and this is going to be a
huge improvement over the Apollo suits.
The Apollo suits didn't have many
of these types of joints that
we've put in this suit,
so the astronauts would be more comfortable,
have an easier time walking,
performing tasks,
getting down to like to pick up
a rock or something like that,
or use a geology tool.
And then the other thing that,
yeah, that's a great,
great demonstration there by Jim.
The other thing I wanted to touch
on is the boots.
The boots are critical,
critical part of the suit,
especially for the the Artemis 3
mission and missions to the the,
the,
the South Pole of the Moon will
be answering regions called
permanently shadowed regions.
These are regions of the moon that
never see sunlight and they're very,
very cold and so it's very
important that we insulate the boots
appropriately to keep the astronauts
feet comfortable during the Eva.
That's a portion of the design.
There's, there's as Mr.
Suffredini mentioned,
there's many portions of this
design that we've.
We've kind of adopted from Xmu and
are continuing to refine that's
that's an excellent portion of the.
The Xmu team did a tremendous job
and a lot of our teammates did a
tremendous job designing those boots.
So we're taking those forward
and refining them to flight.
Those are a really a key aspect of the suit.
I think I've covered everything
pretty quickly here at a
high level, I don't think
I've missed anything here.