BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — The Artemis generation of astronauts now know where their new spacesuits built for Moon exploration are coming from.

In an announcement from Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, NASA officials unveiled Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace as the winners of contracts worth up to $3.5 billion “for all the task orders.”

The contracts are formally known as the Exploration Extravehicular Activity Services (xEVAS) contract solicitation.

“With these awards, NASA and our partners will develop advanced, reliable spacesuits that allow humans to explore the cosmos unlike ever before,” said Vanessa Wyche, director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, in a statement. “By partnering with industry, we are efficiently advancing the necessary technology to keep Americans on a path of successful discovery on the International Space Station and as we set our sights on exploring the lunar surface.”

Both companies have already invested “a significant amount of its own money into development,” NASA said on Wednesday.

The first suits will be developed for a demonstration mission outside of the International Space Station, followed by use for the Artemis III lunar landing, currently set for no earlier than 2025.

Last month, NASA announced the suspension of non-urgent spacewalks from the ISS as they study an issue with the Space Shuttle-era suits aboard the orbiting outpost. There was an issue with water being found in the helmet of ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer during a March 23 spacewalk.