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What's the deal with spacesuits for the Moon? Will they be ready in time?

NASA is down to a single provider for a critical link in its lunar architecture.

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What's the deal with spacesuits for the Moon? Will they be ready in time?
Source: Ars Technica

After the successful conclusion of the Artemis II mission earlier this month, focus turned to what comes next in NASA's roadmap to return humans to the Moon.

The biggest question concerned the readiness of lunar landers, the complex and essential machines needed to take astronauts down to the lunar surface and back up to orbit. And as Ars reported at the time, both SpaceX and Blue Origin have a significant amount of developmental and testing work left to do before even a prototype lander is ready.

But a secondary question has been the development of spacesuits, which are necessary for astronauts to exit their landers and explore the lunar surface. Less is publicly known about their development.

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