ILC Dover Among Industry Team Selected to Provide the Next Generation of Spacesuits for NASA

NEWARK, Del. – June 3, 2022 – ILC Dover, the leading provider of spacesuits since the Apollo era, has been selected as part of the Collins Aerospace -led  team of industry leaders, along Oceaneering, to produce NASA’s next-generation extravehicular spacesuit. This next-generation extravehicular spacesuit could be worn by astronauts while working outside the International Space […]

Repost: The Goodyear Blimp Returns To Europe

ILC Dover is proud to support Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik and Goodyear as the Goodyear Blimp returns to the skies of Europe for the first time in nearly ten years! ILC Dover has been the sole supplier of envelopes (fabric structures) for the Zeppelin NT LZN07 airship for more than twenty years. Originally posted on Goodyear An icon […]

Spacesuits of the Future, Today: ILC Dover Continues Its Leadership in Spacesuits

“Fifty years after Neil Armstrong walked on the moon – wearing one of our spacesuits – commercial space travel is poised to open the universe to a generation of astronauts,” said Patty Stoll, director of space systems. “ILC Dover’s Astrospace division has the proven spacesuit technology to protect future explorers who will venture beyond the bounds of Earth.” The […]

How ILC Dover Helped Pathfinder Land Safely on Mars

The NASA team, when preparing for the 1997 Mars Pathfinder mission to Mars, faced a daunting problem: If Pathfinder completed the 300 million-mile trek to the Red Planet, how could it land gently enough to keep the finely tuned research equipment on board from being damaged? In its search for a solution, NASA contacted ILC […]