NASA’s astronauts will wear a Prada-designed onesie to keep cool on the moon

This Prada-designed onesie will help keep NASA’s Artemis astronauts cool on the moon

On Sunday Axiom Space and Prada unveiled the cooling inner garment that NASA’s Artemis astronauts will wear under their space suits on the moon

NASA’s Artemis astronauts will bring high fashion to the high frontier on future missions by wearing a Prada-designed inner layer beneath their space suits when they walk on the moon’s surface. Called the Liquid Cooling and Ventilation Garment (LCVG), this futuristic onesie is riddled with tubing that can circulate cold water around the astronauts’ bodies, ensuring they won’t overheat while they gad about on the moon. And of course, it also features the signature red stripe of Prada’s activewear line on one sleeve.

The Italian fashion house has been working for years with Axiom Space, a private company commissioned by NASA to make new space suits for its astronauts to wear during upcoming Artemis missions. The cooling onesie, which was unveiled at a press event on Sunday, will be worn under the Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AxEMU) space suit, which is also designed in collaboration with Prada. The AxEMU is the first major upgrade to NASA’s space suits in more than 20 years. Currently, the space agency relies on a similar design to the space suits worn during the Apollo era.

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“When we unveiled the AxEMU, we announced that the collaboration between Prada and Axiom Space would continue beyond that first milestone,” said Lorenzo Bertelli, Prada’s group chief marketing officer and head of sustainability, in a statement.

“Today, we are proud to present a new achievement born from the unique combination of Axiom Space’s pioneering expertise and Prada’s know-how in design, patternmaking, and advanced materials, ahead of humanity’s return to the lunar surface,” he added.

Aside from the tubes to circulate liquid around the astronauts’ bodies, the new undergarment also features a ventilation system to deliver oxygen to them and to remove carbon dioxide from inside the space suits.