NEW: NASA’s next moonwalk outfit was co-designed by Prada.
The AxEMU is the spacesuit Artemis III astronauts will wear on the Moon in 2026, built by Axiom Space with Prada handling materials, stitching, and design.
-Full-body cooling “long johns” with water tubing running neck to toes
-8-hour spacewalks, 2 hours longer than Apollo
-Modular snap-in arms and legs that fit 1st to 99th percentile body sizes, men or women
-Built for the lunar south pole, including pitch-black craters that never see sunlight
-4G/LTE comms, HD camera, Oakley visor, custom gloves and boots
-$228M NASA contract, first new American moon suit since 1972
The first woman on the Moon will wear Prada.
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I met @tejpaul in New York in the early 2010s.
We were both building startups. Two guys figuring it out as we went. Half the time we had no idea what we were doing. We learned together anyway.
Then he left for Google.
Years later, on a @PitchandrunNYC, we were a sounding board as he worked his way into space.
We always knew he was special. But watching him command thousands of people for that operation was purely magical. June 2025. Cape Canaveral. A Falcon 9 carrying four astronauts to the ISS, including Shubhanshu Shukla, just the second Indian astronaut ever to reach space. As a kid of Indian immigrants, watching that rocket climb hit different. Tej was CEO of Axiom Space, and he ran that mission.
We happened to see him literally the same day he was leaving Axiom.
And before he told his wife, before there was a company, before he even knew he wanted to build again, we told him we were in.
No deck. No name. No plan. Just Tej. An N of 1 human with the most epic space network and passion on the planet. An undeniable fervor to create space access's first marketplace and fintech platform.
Today, Nebex announces its $30M seed. @EniacVC co-led with @GVteam.
We've said it before. We back founders doing their life's work. We've had a front row seat to Tej doing his for more than a decade.
To the moon! 🚀
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