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NASA's new suits are one giant leap for space fashion
Engadget ^
| Jun 13th 2008 at 8:30AM
| Thomas Ricker
Posted on 06/13/2008 8:42:41 AM PDT by CarrotAndStick
NASA just awarded its future spacesuit contract to Oceaneering International. The US firm must now design, test, and produce two suits -- the default suit (pictured after the break) worn on-board for launch and landing and a second, more versatile, cheese-proof suit worn during space walks and upon the surface of the moon. The suits must be ready for the first scheduled launch of the Orion Space Capsule in 2015. The contract is valued at the government special price of just $745 million. Hey, we have to keep up appearances at the International Space Station, you know.
TOPICS: News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: astronaut; nasa; space; spacesuit
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To: CarrotAndStick
Cool - looks like it has a built-in cellphone pocket - definitely not needed in the original...
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posted on
06/13/2008 8:46:28 AM PDT
by
Hegemony Cricket
(Friends with umbrellas are outstanding in the rain.)
To: Hegemony Cricket
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posted on
06/13/2008 8:48:18 AM PDT
by
Celerity
To: CarrotAndStick
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posted on
06/13/2008 8:50:57 AM PDT
by
sam_paine
(X .................................)
To: CarrotAndStick
Does it only come in white? What will they wear after Labor Day?
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posted on
06/13/2008 8:51:46 AM PDT
by
LIConFem
(Thompson. Lifetime ACU Rating: 86 -- Hunter Lifetime ACU Rating: 92 (any combo will do, fellas))
To: sam_paine
“cheese-proof “? Also "Moose-Proof" from what I hear.
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posted on
06/13/2008 8:54:40 AM PDT
by
Doomonyou
(Let them eat lead.)
To: CarrotAndStick
"cheese-proof"?
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posted on
06/13/2008 8:54:56 AM PDT
by
sionnsar
(trad-anglican.faithweb.com |Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
To: CarrotAndStick
cheese-proof suit?
I like cheese.
So does my moose...
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posted on
06/13/2008 8:55:32 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Bureaucracies are stupid. They grow larger by the square of their age and stupider by its cube.)
To: sam_paine
“cheese-proof “? I think its attempted humor. Since the moon is made of cheese, the suits have to be cheese proof.
To: sam_paine
I don’t know if I’m just hungry or such a South Park fan that it’s always on the brain, but I read that as “cheesy poof.” ;-)
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posted on
06/13/2008 8:57:15 AM PDT
by
retrokitten
("You mean those clothes of hers are on purpose? I thought she was escaping a burning building.")
To: sam_paine
Well, it is meant for the moon.
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posted on
06/13/2008 8:57:40 AM PDT
by
kenth
(Just think, .000001783% of the population is screwing it all up for the rest of us.)
To: sam_paine
“Cheese-proof”
The most vicious alien pirate raiders on the dark side of the moon are French.
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posted on
06/13/2008 8:59:55 AM PDT
by
MeanWestTexan
(Kol Hakavod Mossad!)
To: sionnsar; null and void
Yup.
If you take a look at the comments on the original source, you'll find this:
Cheese-proof?
the moon is made of cheese, DUH
you don't want track that back into your space whip.
yeah, it took me a while too.
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posted on
06/13/2008 9:00:33 AM PDT
by
CarrotAndStick
(The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
To: MeanWestTexan
The most vicious alien pirate raiders on the dark side of the moon are French. Sheer luna-cy...
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posted on
06/13/2008 9:01:32 AM PDT
by
Jonah Hex
("Never underestimate the hungover side of the Force.")
To: Jonah Hex
luna-cy
Hyphen not required :^)
lu·na·cy (l  n -s )n. pl. lu·na·cies 1. Insanity, especially insanity relieved intermittently by periods of clear-mindedness. See Synonyms at insanity.
2. a. Great or wild foolishness.
b. A wildly foolish act.
3. Archaic Intermittent mental derangement associated with the changing phases of the moon.
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posted on
06/13/2008 9:13:08 AM PDT
by
CarrotAndStick
(The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
To: Vince Ferrer
“I think its attempted humor. Since the moon is made of cheese, the suits have to be cheese proof.”
I think it means ‘goof’ proof. Cheesing something means screwing it up, like ‘screwing the pooch’, or ‘hoseproof’.
However, you are probably correct.
It could be an ‘inside joke’ with NASA. Ya never know.
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posted on
06/13/2008 9:13:25 AM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(I reserve the right to misinterpret the comments of any and all pesters)
To: CarrotAndStick
I would have got it if they said "green cheese-proof"
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posted on
06/13/2008 9:14:03 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Bureaucracies are stupid. They grow larger by the square of their age and stupider by its cube.)
To: CarrotAndStick
This was one of the prototypes not selected:
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posted on
06/13/2008 9:14:56 AM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(USAF, TAC, 12th AF, 366 TFW, 366 MG, 366 CRS, Mtn Home AFB, 1978-81)
To: sam_paine
What I want to know is what this means”
“the default suit (pictured after the break)”
Which one of the three is that? And when will the break be over?
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posted on
06/13/2008 9:19:37 AM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(I reserve the right to misinterpret the comments of any and all pesters)
To: CarrotAndStick
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