These Guys Want to Build the Space Suit of the Future

This is a story about Nik Moiseev and Ted Southern. It is also a story about a Russian engineer and an American artist. It is also a story about a Brooklyn startup. It is also a story about space travel.

Moiseev had spent more than two decades working in the Soviet Union (and then in Russia) as an engineer of spacesuits -- specifically, of garments that cosmonauts could wear as they rode the Soyuz rocket up to the International Space Station. Southern, meanwhile, was an artist and sculptor who had been focusing his skills on fashion design. (One of his signatures: the angel wings that lingerie-clad models wear in Victoria's Secret runway shows.)

The two were, in other words, an odd…
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