There’s a pained look on Dillon Hall’s face behind the space suit’s closed mask. The bulky gear he’s wearing from head to toe weighs 125 pounds. It’s a prototype of what NASA astronauts will don on the moon, which has one-sixth the gravity of Earth. Up there he could easily bounce along the dusty lunar surface. Down here, at Axiom Space’s headquarters in Houston, he relies on a long stick and the helping hands of his fellow engineers just to stay upright.NASA awarded Axiom a $1.26 billion contract to make the suits for the agency’s Artemis program, which aims to return Americans to the moon for the first time since the last of the historic Apollo landings, in 1972. That’s expected to happen starting with…The post Can Houston Remain “Space City”? appeared first on Texas Monthly.
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