宇航服的時尚變臉

????ILC多佛公司（ILC Dover）是一家位于特拉華州鄉間的工程公司。五十年來，這里一直在為每一位宇航員提供裝備——從尼爾?阿姆斯特朗到2012年在國際空間站外進行太空行走的蘇妮塔?威廉姆斯。然而這次的最新任務ILC【創立時名為國際橡膠公司（International Latex Corp.）】以前卻從未接手過：為美國國家航空航天局（NASA）制造時尚前衛的宇航服。

????這一新裝的原型名為Z-2。2013年早些時候，NASA公布了由費城大學（Philadelphia University）時尚和工業設計專業的學生設計的三款宇航服，其中一款將作為新宇航服使用，而選擇權交給了公眾。這三款設計分別采用了以下主題：NASA的歷史、體育運動與超級英雄、大自然。NASA的官員希望這次活動能夠重新點燃人們對空間項目的熱情。NASA的頂級太空服工程師艾米?羅斯說：“決定采用時髦宇航服的部分原因在于商業太空飛行正在升溫，另一部分原因是他們也希望自己的太空服看起來酷一些?！保ㄘ敻恢形木W）

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????For five decades ILC Dover, an engineering firm in Delaware farm country, has been outfitting astronauts for space -- everyone from Neil Armstrong to Sunita Williams, who performed a space walk outside the International Space Station (ISS) in 2012. And yet ILC (which was founded as International Latex Corp.) has never before embarked on its latest mission: to make a fashion-forward suit for NASA.

????The prototype is called Z-2. A new palette will be chosen when, early this year, NASA unveils three designs by Philadelphia University fashion and industrial design students. The public gets to pick a winner. Each design will draw on one of three themes: NASA's history, sports and superheroes, and nature. NASA officials hope that the campaign will rekindle excitement for the space program. "Part of this came from the fact that commercial space flight is gearing up," says Amy Ross, a top space-suit engineer at NASA, "and part of what they want is for their space suits to look cool."???