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NASA’s $200M Spacesuit Problem Threatens Its Deep-Space Exploration Plans
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| 04/26/2017
| Irene Klotz
Posted on 04/26/2017 5:34:34 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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A NASA gallery image of three spacesuits: the Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU), the Constellation Space Suit System, and the Z-2 suit prototype of the Advanced Space Suit Project. NASA
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posted on
04/26/2017 5:34:34 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
The real reason for the need to develop new space suits is to protect astronauts from radiation. Not smoke or toxic chemicals or whatever BS they are peddling here. The fact is, every astronaut who has been to space has been bathed in radiation, and aside from accidents, every astronaut who has died has died from cancer as a result of old spacesuits' failure to protect from intense exposure.
The project to develop a new suit was cancelled by Obama in the last year or so.
To: BenLurkin
the Z-2 suit
Otherwise known as the “Zoot Suit”?
To: BenLurkin
Oh, the Z suit for sure, and it already has
a big logo on it!
Just needs day glo colours!
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posted on
04/26/2017 5:40:38 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: hinckley buzzard
NASA reported a few months ago that, somehow, they are no longer able to pierce the 5,000 F heat and radiation of the Van Allen Belt.
But they know how to drink their own pee. So lovely.
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posted on
04/26/2017 5:44:41 PM PDT
by
Sontagged
(Lord Jesus: please expose, unveil and then frogmarch Your enemies behind You as You've promised...)
To: tet68
$200 million “developing”? Send robots.
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posted on
04/26/2017 5:46:33 PM PDT
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
To: hal ogen
Give free enterprise 1/10th that stand back.
Heck, make it a contest like that stupid Toy Box one.
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posted on
04/26/2017 5:48:41 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(The Civil Rights movement compared content of their character to skin color and chose the latter)
To: hinckley buzzard
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posted on
04/26/2017 5:50:33 PM PDT
by
Williams
(Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
To: BenLurkin
Now that Obama has left office, at least they can leave out the prayer rug.
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posted on
04/26/2017 5:51:45 PM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Larry Lucido
lol. Great suits. Have pictures of pop in them :)
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posted on
04/26/2017 5:51:49 PM PDT
by
dp0622
(IThe only thing an upper crust Conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
To: BenLurkin
Somebody tried to ruin my 200 million dollar suit.
You a piece of ### Frank.
:)
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posted on
04/26/2017 5:52:58 PM PDT
by
dp0622
(IThe only thing an upper crust Conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
To: hinckley buzzard
One of the space books I've read said one astronaut on the ISS would sleep in the water storage room, figuring the containers of water would help reduce his radiation exposure.
I've also read that aluminum, when struck by a high-energy particle is easily capable of losing and loosing a neutron to go plowing into whatever is in the way, such as say, DNA.
To: freedumb2003
I can only imagine the pace they work. “Well, in a few months we will narrow the color selection down” What’s a sense of urgency? Give me 10% of that budget and I will start from zero tomorrow and , hey if it doesn’t work out, they still have saved 90% of their budget!
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posted on
04/26/2017 5:59:03 PM PDT
by
montaine
To: Calvin Locke
Spacesuits are eventually going to have circulating water in suits for this reason. It auto-controls temperature, it protects against radiation, and place a water-activated polymer on the outside and if the suit is punctured by a microsatellite or mistake the suit can autoseal from the leakage of water.
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posted on
04/26/2017 6:07:07 PM PDT
by
struggle
(The)
To: Larry Lucido
Does it come in pin strips?
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posted on
04/26/2017 6:14:14 PM PDT
by
2001convSVT
(Going Galt as fast as I can.)
To: Calvin Locke
Approximately two feet of water is a tenth thickness for gamma. That is it will reduce the dose to 1/10th of the previous dose.
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posted on
04/26/2017 6:14:22 PM PDT
by
Nuc 1.1
(Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
04/26/2017 6:42:42 PM PDT
by
Fiddlstix
(Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
To: hinckley buzzard
They should just use the ones they went to the moon with.
No radiation problems there.
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posted on
04/26/2017 6:49:36 PM PDT
by
chris37
(Donald J. Trump, Tom Brady, The Patriots... American Destiny!)
To: Larry Lucido
To: chris37
There wasn’t a lot of radiation coming from Stanley Kubrick’s video camera on the set of the moon landing.
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