The Hohenstein Institute in association with three other organisations: Schoeller Textil AG, the Charité hospital and German Aerospace Centre has initiated a design competition ‘Spacetex 2030’, which challenges students to design functional clothing for astronauts on a mission to Mars. The students have to consider special demands of the astronauts, who will be spending months experiencing weightlessness during the flight or low gravity when on Mars. The project aims at acquiring data related to interaction amid the human body, clothing and climate in a zero gravity environment, which will then be used to optimise textile materials as related to the special needs of weightlessness.
