Why NASA spacesuits are so expensive

NASA's current fleet of spacesuits were built in 1974, and were reported to cost between $15 million and $22 million. Today, that would be worth about $150 million. Having not built any new mission-ready extravehicular suits since then, NASA is running out of spacesuits. In fact, NASA are down to just four flight-ready EVA suits. Since 2009, NASA has invested more than $200 million in spacesuit development, recently unveiling the xEMU prototype for its Artemis program, which plans to take hum...