Tech Policy Podcast

Ryan Scirocco is the spacesuit business development lead at Collins Aerospace. Collins, an RTX business, is, along with its partners ILC Dover and Oceaneering, developing a new generation of spacesuits for NASA. Ryan discusses everything that goes into keeping people alive in a freezing zero-gravity vacuum far outside the biosphere.Topics include:A spacesuit is a mini-spaceshipSpace: it wants to kill youSpacesuit historyWhat’s new? No more mirrors!Testing spacesuits on the vomit cometThe ISS, the Moon, and beyondLinks:Collins Aerospace Completes Key Spacesuit Testing MilestoneSpace SymposiumTech Policy Podcast #349: The State of Space Exploration