Columbia Sportswear is an apparel manufacturer that has recently expanded its role to include providing thermal protection technology for space applications. They partner with companies like Intuitive Machines, providing their Omni-Heat™ Infinity and Omni-Shade™ technologies to protect lunar landers like the IM-1 Odysseus and IM-2 Athena from extreme temperatures on the moon. This technology, inspired by NASA space blankets, is also used in their outdoor clothing lines. These partnerships support NASA's Artemis program and the development of a sustainable human presence on the Moon.
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Columbia Sportswear partnered with Intuitive Machines, with the help of a Forbes affiliate, to use Columbia's thermal fabric for the lunar lander.
Columbia Sportswear provided material identical to what it uses on some jackets to IM-1 to test its use as insulation for a propellant tank.
One non-NASA payload on IM-1 is Omni-Heat Infinity thermal reflective material developed by Columbia Sportswear and identical to the material used in Columbia jackets.
Columbia Sportswear plans to work with Intuitive Machines on the company’s second lander mission using the same insulating material and testing a new material.
Columbia Sportswear Company and Lunaprise have announced plans to use Intuitive Machines landers to reach the Moon.