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Final Frontier Design is a seed-stage startup company that builds and tests spacesuits.〔 The company's products both enable, and are enabled by, the more recent lower-cost access to space epitomized by NewSpace launch companies such as SpaceX, Virgin Galactic and XCOR Aerospace.〔 〕 FFD was awarded a Phase I SBIR in 2011 and developed pressure garment glove technology under this contract. In July 2011, Final Frontier Design won third place in the ''2011 NewSpace Business Plan Competition'' in Silicon Valley, sponsored by the Space Frontier Foundation. In December 2014, Final Frontier Design obtained an official Space Act Agreement with NASA. ==Company== Final Frontier Design was founded in 2010 〔(Article in space.com about releasing in July 2010 Prime Suit of FFD )〕 by "artist and designer" Ted Southern and his partner Nikolay Moiseev, "a Russian mechanical engineer," with the intent to "craft affordable yet highly capable spacesuits for a burgeoning commercial spaceflight industry."〔 〕 Southern is a sculptor and costume designer who has built angel wings for Victoria’s Secret; Moiseev boasts 20 years of experience working as a space suit designer for Zvezda, Russia’s national space suit supplier. They placed second in the Astronaut Glove Challenge 2009, pulling in $100,000 in prize money for their pressurized glove technology. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Final Frontier Design」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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