With NASA’s 2024 Moon landing deadline fast approaching, a number of hardware elements need to be developed and tested in short order. One of those is a lunar surface spacesuit.

On Oct. 4, 2019, NASA announced in a request for information that it was seeking industry feedback to help “refine and mature” a strategy for production and services for spacesuits that will be used by astronauts in the agency’s Artemis Moon program.