Four Texas Christian University (TCU) undergraduate students won the 2025 Best Innovation Award at the Technology Collaboration Center Wearables Workshop and University Challenge for their project, “Optimized Suit Environmental Protection Garment Seams.”
The challenge was part of the Spaceflight Human Optimization Conference hosted in April 2025 hosted at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. The students’ project focused on designing flexible, low-profile seams for spacesuits to prevent the intrusion of lunar dust. The team developed seam prototypes using Kevlar®, Teflon® and polyurethane-coated textiles, sewn with either polyester or nylon thread. They were also one of nine national finalists in Amentum’s Back to the Moon Challenge last fall, a competition supporting NASA’s goal of long-term lunar habitation…