{"690272":{"#nid":"690272","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Georgia Tech professor behind design of Artemis II spacesuits","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELess than a month after the historic Artemis II mission began, a Georgia Tech researcher is being recognized for his work in helping keep astronauts safe in space.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/thomas-orlando\u0022\u003EThomas Orlando\u003C\/a\u003E, a Regents\u2019 professor at Georgia Tech, designed the spacesuits worn by astronauts on Artemis 2. He said his team focused on protecting the suits from micrometeorite impacts and especially lunar dust.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe realized that a bigger problem, at least from NASA\u2019s perspective, is dust,\u0022 Orlando said. \u201cWe don\u2019t really want dust to be on spacesuits. It can get into the seals. It could, you know, cause them to leak.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOrlando works with graduate students to study the challenges astronauts may face in space and on the moon.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELess than a month after the historic Artemis II mission began, a Georgia Tech researcher is being recognized for his work in helping keep astronauts safe in space.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/thomas-orlando\u0022\u003EThomas Orlando\u003C\/a\u003E, a Regents\u2019 professor at Georgia Tech, designed the spacesuits worn by astronauts on Artemis 2. He said his team focused on protecting the suits from micrometeorite impacts and especially lunar dust.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe realized that a bigger problem, at least from NASA\u2019s perspective, is dust,\u0022 Orlando said. \u201cWe don\u2019t really want dust to be on spacesuits. It can get into the seals. It could, you know, cause them to leak.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOrlando works with graduate students to study the challenges astronauts may face in space and on the moon.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2026-05-13 17:27:46","changed_gmt":"2026-05-14 14:13:53","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"WJCL 22 Savannah","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.wjcl.com\/article\/georgia-tech-artemis-ii-spacesuits\/71221037","dateline":{"date":"2026-05-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-05-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"85951","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"192252","name":"cos-planetary"},{"id":"194618","name":"Artemis program"},{"id":"166928","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}