[hinckley buzzard]

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.

[Sontagged]

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.

[Williams]

Except that’s not true: https://www.google.com/amp/www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/07/28/moon-disease-apollo-astronauts-more-likely-to-die-of-heart-probl/amp/

[Calvin Locke]

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.

[chris37]

They should just use the ones they went to the moon with.

No radiation problems there.