[nicpottier]

I can already hear all the complaints about having the public weigh in on this, and even on the waste of organizing it, but I think this is a pretty brilliant move on the part of Nasa.

There's far too little to 'inspire' kids anymore and I imagine far fewer kids saying they want to be astronauts. This does the double duty of involving the public even in a tiny way and of hopefully coming up with a design that moves people a bit as well.

Both good things in my book.

[tsumnia]

As much as I like this as a way to get kids interested, and I know that NASA couldn't offer massive fundamental design differences to an uneducated public (just not knowing what is safe), I was hoping for a little more than what pattern the LED lights appear on the suit. Designs 1 and 3 look like glow bracelets stitched into the suit, and the [as of this post] current winner is just modeled after Tron.

That said, I'd donate a month's paycheck if they remodeled it to use Buzz Lightyear's color scheme and design.

[Joeri]

To inspire the kids all they need to do is give the suit the color scheme of buzz lightyear, a bit like the Z-1.

[chadillac]

I'm super bummed the first image on the page is "Buzz Lightyear" themed, and then not an option for the actual vote. I want to live in a world where Buzz Lightyear looking spacemen are a real thing.