Based on systems that maintain safe temperatures inside NASA spacesuits, a pioneering company developed lightweight, therapeutic cooling and heating suits to provide comfort and healing to people suffering from heat stress and other ailments. Another branch of these technologies includes deep-tissue warmth and stimulation treatments for muscular stress therapy.
Temperatures in space range from dangerously hot to dangerously cold, and without an atmosphere to protect astronauts, they must rely on their space suits. In the 1960s, as NASA prepared to send astronauts to the moon, one engineer, Bill Elkins, worked on building a liquid cooling system, which pumped cooled water in tubes throughout the suit to maintain a steady temperature. Although his system was never used, something similar is now built in to modern day spacesuits, and the technology has found myriad uses beyond space.
Learn more about how NASA helped develop technology that impact cool suits within your city's sports environment!