Orlando Pride unveiled their new kit for the 2022 season and the franchise is continuing last year’s NASA inspired theme into 2023. The club unveiled signature space kits last season with their “Ad Astra” jerseys, and this year the team will sport the Luna kit. The new Luna jersey will sever as the club’s secondary kit for the 2022/23 seasons.
The kit is inspired by Florida’s Space Coast and NASA’s recently announced Artemis Program — a next generation initiative to land the first woman on the moon in 2024, as part of the first moon landing since 1972 — the jersey will be a primarily white kit, with lunar elements throughout, and an image of the moon on the left half.
Building on last season’s space kit narrative, Orland Pride players returned to the Kennedy Space Center and participated in a promotional photoshoot at the “Apollo/Saturn V Center: Race to the Moon” exhibit.
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The Luna jersey will also feature a jock tag of Artemis, who in Greek mythology and religion was the Twin sister of Apollo. Artemis was regarded as a patron goddess of hunting and wild nature, and is associated with wild animals, forests, and the moon.
“We were lucky to go to the Kennedy Space Center and take some photos in the kit,” said Orlando Pride midfielder Gunny Jonsdottir. “I think that’s really cool that the jersey stands for something like that, [it’s] something that this club stands for.”
Jonsdottir joined CBS Sports soccer podcast Attacking Third to discuss the new Luna kit, details about the jersey, and wearing the new kit for the first time at the Kennedy Space Center.
“I’ve been there when I was young, but now coming out as an adult and wearing a jersey that kind of connects you with it. It’s a whole different experience.”
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