Japan to enter space race -- in fashion

spacedaily.com ^ | 12/21/05

[KevinDavis]

Japan hopes to become the third nation to produce a space suit, using its technology to design a slimmer outfit for the next US mission to the moon, an official said Wednesday.

Japan will use its computer and fiber knowhow to design gear weighing 20 kilograms (44 pounds), down from the burdensome 120 kilograms (265 pounds) of the current US-made outfit, a space agency official said.

Space suits, which are also made by Russia, must shield humans from massive change in temperature and protect them from nuisances such as meteoric stones.

The agency aims to develop the new space outfit in time for the US manned mission to the Moon due in 2018, the first since 1972.

[KevinDavis]

[Paradox]

The prototype:

[tet68]

protect them from nuisances such as meteoric stones.

Nuisance???
Listen the last time I passed a stone, it WAS the size of a
meteor and burned like hell too.....

[Chode]

imagine one going the other way...

[Brett66]

LOL! ummm...ouch!

[Boiler Plate]

BTT

[DTogo]

For the female Moonbase staffers:

[jmcenanly]

If you don't want to go for the purple helmet look, how about this:

l to r Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell, Martin Landau
Looks like they're trying to save on heating

[DTogo]

Both, along with the original Star Trek, were childhood favorites of mine.