Victoria's Secret Designer Designing The Next-Gen Space Suits! Whoa!

Victoria's Secret costume designer Ted Southern, best known for his angel wings, has teamed up with an ex-Roscosmos (Russian Space Agency) employee - Nikolay Moiseev - to develop the next generation spacesuits! Not the most obvious of pairing, but their passion interest in engineering materials and space suits is what got them together in 2009 - in a NASA competition. From there, the duo founded Final Frontier Design, where they are molding lighter and cheaper space-suits with a view to flourish the commercial space flight industry. Final Frontier Design has received its funding goal on Kickstarter, with a surplus of $7000, and is now in the course of creating a whole new kind of intra-vehicular space suit.

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Building on earlier variants of spacesuits they’ve created, the duo's main focus lies on widening the operating pressure envelope, reducing weight, and lightening the price tag to about $50,000 (which is still quite cheap as compared to NASA's suits). These suits will be sent for NASA certification till the year end.

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