Slick SpaceX suits were made by Hollywood costume designer
If you are heading up to the International Space Station, you’re gonna wanna look your best.
And who better to design your new space suit than a Hollywood costume designer.
Elon Musk’s recent SpaceX-led mission — which launched a pair of NASA astronauts into space on May 30 — featured space suits that were designed by Jose Fernandez, Forbes reports.
For those who don’t know, Fernandez has been responsible for superhero looks in movies like “Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice,” “Tron,” “Iron Man 2,” “The Amazing Spider-Man” and “Captain America: Civil War.”
Forbes reports the designer was approached by Musk in 2016 to come up with a sleek-looking space suit. However, Fernandez said he didn’t realize it was a for-real job.
“I didn’t know what SpaceX was, and I thought it was a film,” Fernandez said.
Musk is said to have been impressed with Fernandez’s helmets. The designer should know how to make those — he put together Thor and Loki’s helmets.
And if the helmets look a bit like something from a Daft Punk concert, it’s no coincidence. Fernandez has built several pieces of head gear for the duo.
While safety is paramount, the look was also pretty important to Musk.
“(Musk) kept saying, ‘Anyone looks better in a tux, no matter what size or shape they are,’” Fernandez told Forbes, “and when people put this space suit on, he wants them to look better than they did without it, like a tux. You look heroic in it.”
The suits are noticeably free of many of the connections as with NASA’s past suits. Fernandez’s suits have but one connection — at the thigh. The idea is that having only one connection point helps free the astronauts from having to struggle during tasks in microgravity.
Now, it’s just a question of how long before these suits show up in Marvel’s next superhero feature.
Tells me all I need to know.
SpaceX is faik and ghey.