freeztar Posted July 18, 2007 Report Share Posted July 18, 2007 A team at MIT has developed a new type of spacesuit that will give astronauts more manueverability, as well as fashion.Read about it here - National Geographic News Photo Gallery: New Skintight Spacesuit Design Unveiled Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DougF Posted July 18, 2007 Report Share Posted July 18, 2007 Those suits look pretty good, :shrug:I knew they were designing new ones but it looks like you could relay move around in these, I think they did fine job.:phones: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfiniteNow Posted July 18, 2007 Report Share Posted July 18, 2007 I guess there will not be many more fat astronauts slipping by without anyone knowing. :phones: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freeztar Posted July 18, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2007 The bummer is that they say it will be another 10 years before it is ready. :phones: Does that seem weird to anyone else? They've been working on this thing for seven years now. So it take 17 years to design a spacesuit? Does anyone know what design criteria is needed for space travel? They mentioned that the suit would exert pressure to balance the vacuum of space, but they didn't go into any detail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercedes Benzene Posted July 18, 2007 Report Share Posted July 18, 2007 It doesn't look like it would be very safe... If they can make it work though, more power to them. I was just recently thinking about how awkward it must be to work in a spacesuit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
max4236 Posted July 22, 2007 Report Share Posted July 22, 2007 Whoa baby.. :bouquet: It's quite clever too, those lines of non-extension, makes sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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