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Yes, SpaceX should definitely stick to their current trivial tasks.
Well it would certainly be interesting whether Mr Musk was just chucking in the comment as a bit of a dig at NASA or whether they have actually done any work on such suits.
NASA do seem to have caught themselves out shilly shallying over suit requirements and specs, not recognizing the time pressure, but then again a lot of very smart people and organizations have looked at the EMU vs. Lunar environment problem.
Ask them to produce a limited use, low pressure suit, perhaps tailor made for a single user and they’ll go
. Ask them to produce something guaranteed to be good for several dozen outings ( at least), remotely maintainable and adaptable to people of various sizes and you get more of a
.
So ..has Elon got something up his sleeve..
