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You mean that isn’t what we’ve been using? Huh, I had no idea! By all means, get this made!

That’s a photo of Neil Armstrong. Why not compare the design to something a little more contemporary?

I’m not convinced that blocking 10% of the wearer’s vision with a microphone module or incorporating an optically distorting ridge into the wearer’s line-of-sight are improvements.

Products for extreme situations like this are engineered to the maximum efficiencies and ergonomics achievable by their present-day technology.

Not meant to discourage, but rather to encourage a shift in focus.

Sorry but i feel the need to vent… After seeing this helmet on a few other websites, i cant hold in the urge any longer to say how much this design irritates me! Nasas budget is in the region of 18.7 billion dollars a year! why waste your time trying to design something you have no idea or information about? The existing and future designs of space walk helmet are incorporated in the actual space suit itself… There are a million and one reasons why the helmets are designed this way already! You couldn’t even use this design for the launch-and-entry suit and the field of vision is far too small.

“humanize the head-gear and make it an extension of the wearer rather than a restrictive encapsulation”. It’s not a restrictive encapsulation!!

I think the worst part is that while he states a goal for the design, he doesn’t show how his design fulfills those needs. And in fact, he seems to complicate things more than they seems to have been.

For instance we are shown a picture of Neil Armstrong wearing the classic helmet, and written over it are the words “Communication Issues.” Yet in the picture, Neil is wearing a headset that seems like it would function just fine. And in fact, the microphone being attached to his head would allow it to turn with his head, whereas the new design integrates it into the mask. This means if you turn your head, the mic is no longer in front of your mouth which would cause ‘Communication Issues.’ I get that each astronaut would be connected in an ad-hoc method, but that’s not really a new design, and it’s really just an idea tacked on to the drawing.

Also, the new facemask part is far more restrictive. The reason the spacesuits have those giant spherical glass face masks is so the astronauts can look around with a panoramic view.

This looks like a project that was more “art” design than “engineering” design, and it gets a FAIL on the practical.

Why is someone scratching someone else’s astronaut nose?

Doesnt make any sense….

I love helmets, I wear helmets, I have over 30 helmets

This is a terrible design. Clearly the designer never contemplated what it might feel like to be floating in the vacuum of space. I doubt one on feel better donning a helmet that restricts your vision and confines you to a much smaller space. This is a claustrophobic nightmare!

The picture of Neil Armstrong, despite being almost half a centure old, shows him wearing a helmet that was only used for launch to protect the astronauts from sudden decompression.
The actual helmets used for spacewalks and for walking on the moon were much larger and allowed far greater freedom of movement and clearer feild of vision than the design proposed here.
I would also like to know how the wearer would operate the sun visor while wearing thick gloves.