{"id":25837,"date":"2025-04-12T13:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25837"},"modified":"2025-04-12T13:25:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T13:25:45","slug":"how-lauren-sanchez-helped-design-blue-origins-flight-suits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25837","title":{"rendered":"How Lauren Sanchez Helped Design Blue Origin\u2019s Flight Suits"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What do you wear for your first trip to space?<\/p>\n

If you are like most people, probably whatever spacesuit or astronaut outfit the company (or government agency) you are flying with provides. However, if you are Lauren S\u00e1nchez \u2014 journalist, pilot, children\u2019s book author, philanthropist and fianc\u00e9e of Jess Bezos \u2014 the second-richest man on the planet, you have another idea. You think, \u201cLet\u2019s reimagine the flight suit.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cUsually, you know, these suits are made for a man,\u201d Ms. S\u00e1nchez said recently on a video call from the West Coast. \u201cThen they get tailored to fit a woman.\u201d Or not tailored: an all-female spacewalk, planned in 2019, had to be canceled<\/a> because NASA did not have two spacesuits that fit two women. (Instead they sent out one woman and one man.)<\/p>\n

But Ms. S\u00e1nchez is part of the first all-female flight since Russia sent Valentina Tereshkova on a solo flight in 1963. She will be going up on a Blue Origin flight with a pop star (Katy Perry), a journalist (Gayle King), two scientist\/activists (Amanda Nguyen, Aisha Bowe) and a film producer (Kerianne Flynn). Feeling like yourself is what makes you feel powerful, she said, and you shouldn\u2019t have to sacrifice that because space has been \u2014 well, a mostly male space. Even if you are a space tourist, rather than a full-fledged astronaut.<\/p>\n

So five months ago, Ms. S\u00e1nchez got in touch with Fernando Garcia and Laura Kim, the co-founders of the brand Monse, who are also creative directors of Oscar de la Renta (Mr. Garcia and Ms. Kim made Ms S\u00e1nchez\u2019s 2024 Met Gala outfit<\/a>). She wanted to know if they would work with Blue Origin, Mr. Bezos\u2019 space company.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI was like: right away!\u201d Mr. Garcia said over Zoom.<\/p>\n

The result of their collaboration will be unveiled on Monday, when Ms. S\u00e1nchez and crew climb into the Blue Origin rocket in West Texas, and take off for their approximately 11-minute trip past the K\u00e1rm\u00e1n line and into zero gravity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Details of the new Blue Origin\/Monse flight suits, including the passengers’s name, mission patch, dual zippers, Blue Origin insignia, and customizable flared leg.<\/span>Photographs by Justin Hamel for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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What do you wear for your first trip to space?If you are like most people, probably whatever spacesuit or astronaut outfit the company (or government agency) you are flying with provides. However, if you are Lauren S\u00e1nchez \u2014 journalist, pilot, children\u2019s book author, philanthropist and fianc\u00e9e of Jess Bezos \u2014 the second-richest man on the planet, you have another idea. You think, \u201cLet\u2019s reimagine the flight suit.\u201d\u201cUsually, you know, these suits are made for a man,\u201d Ms. S\u00e1nchez said recently on a video call from the West Coast. \u201cThen they get tailored to fit a woman.\u201d Or not tailored: an all-female spacewalk, planned in 2019, had to be canceled because NASA did not have two spacesuits that fit two women. (Instead they sent out one woman and one man.)But Ms. S\u00e1nchez is part of the first all-female flight since Russia sent Valentina Tereshkova on a solo flight in 1963. She will be going up on a Blue Origin flight with a pop star (Katy Perry), a journalist (Gayle King), two scientist\/activists (Amanda Nguyen, Aisha Bowe) and a film producer (Kerianne Flynn). Feeling like yourself is what makes you feel powerful, she said, and you shouldn\u2019t have to sacrifice that because space has been \u2014 well, a mostly male space. Even if you are a space tourist, rather than a full-fledged astronaut.So five months ago, Ms. S\u00e1nchez got in touch with Fernando Garcia and Laura Kim, the co-founders of the brand Monse, who are also creative directors of Oscar de la Renta (Mr. Garcia and Ms. Kim made Ms S\u00e1nchez\u2019s 2024 Met Gala outfit). She wanted to know if they would work with Blue Origin, Mr. Bezos\u2019 space company.\u201cI was like: right away!\u201d Mr. Garcia said over Zoom.The result of their collaboration will be unveiled on Monday, when Ms. S\u00e1nchez and crew climb into the Blue Origin rocket in West Texas, and take off for their approximately 11-minute trip past the K\u00e1rm\u00e1n line and into zero gravity.Details of the new Blue Origin\/Monse flight suits, including the passengers’s name, mission patch, dual zippers, Blue Origin insignia, and customizable flared leg.Photographs by Justin Hamel for The New York TimesWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25839,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25837"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25844,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25837\/revisions\/25844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}