THEto Milanese fashion house he just presented to New York the most secret — and most crucial — component of the space suit that NASA astronauts will wear during the Artemis III missionthe program that will report man on the moon for the first time since 1972. It’s not about the external part, the white one with gray and red details already revealed in 2024. This time Prada has worked on what no one will ever see: the internal layer, in direct contact with the astronauts’ body.
The most technical garment Prada has ever created
Is called Liquid Cooling and Ventilation Garmentand the name says it all: a garment that cools, ventilates, protects. It circulates water along the main muscle groups to disperse body heat, brings fresh oxygen to the face, eliminates carbon dioxide. All this for eight consecutive hourson the lunar surface, in an environment where the temperature can fluctuate between two hundred degrees below zero and one hundred above. A redundant system ensures that, even in the event of a failure, astronauts remain safe. Invisible, yet indispensable.
Deep roots, very high ambitions
It’s not a story born yesterday. Prada works with high performance technical materials for decades, since the times when the passion of Miuccia and Patrizio Bertelli for sailing pushed the maison to develop innovative fabrics for the team Red Moon. That obsessive research on quality of materials, ergonomics, extreme resistance it is the same one that convinced today Axiom Space — the private American aerospace company partner of NASA — to choose an Italian fashion brand for such an extraordinary task. A complete prototype of the suit will be delivered to NASA by the end of the year.
The crew that will make history
The June 9, 2026NASA has announced the names of the astronauts who will board Artemis III: Randy Bresnik, Andre Douglas and Frank Rubiotogether with a face that is already dear to Italians — Luca Parmitanoastronaut ofEuropean Space Agency and a man who has already demonstrated that he knows how to carry the tricolor where few dare to go. An American mission with a profoundly European heart, and this time also with an Italian soul literally sewn onto you.
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