After working with the same spacesuits for nearly 40 years, NASA is looking to introduce the next generation of suits for astronauts working on the International Space Station and beyond. Collins Aerospace was one of two companies chosen to develop a new Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) for the ISS and is also preparing a follow-on version that will be available for Artemis missions to the Moon.

Danny Olivas, chief test astronaut for Collins, recently spoke with Spaceflight Now's Will Robinson-Smith about one of the latest chapters in their test campaign: flying inside the suits onboard a Zero G plane, which can simulate microgravity through parabolic arcs.

Olivas walks us through this latest round of testing, what it was like being in the suit in that environment and what's left before NASA astronaut can don these new spacesuits out in low Earth orbit.

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