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Prada and Axiom Space unveil Liquid Cooling and Ventilation Garment (LCVG) for NASA’s Artemis III lunar spacesuits

Prada and Axiom Space have revealed the Liquid Cooling and Ventilation Garment (LCVG), the high-performance inner layer that Artemis astronauts will wear beneath next-generation lunar spacesuits for Artemis III. The partnership focuses on moon-suit thermal management designed to help crews survive extreme lunar conditions.

Discovered 2026-06-07T08:41:34.340849-07:00 | 2026-06-07T08:41:34.340849-07:00

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What Hype is tracking

  • The LCVG is a mission-critical component of NASA’s Artemis-era spacesuit architecture, shifting design attention to integrated life-support thermal control at the garment layer.
  • A fashion-to-space collaboration underscores how Axiom Space is integrating non-traditional partners into spacesuit systems—an execution model relevant to scaling hardware for repeated human lunar missions.
  • This follows Axiom’s recent funding momentum (see Axiom Space raises $175M-plus, pushing latest total to $525M, with MUFG Bank joining as new investor), linking capital for space-station development with continued investment in human spaceflight enabling technologies.

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