Timeline for Spacesuit for Vermoid Locomotion
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| Dec 2 at 8:29 | comment | added | flox | @IMSoP The issue is each suit needs to be fitted exactly to the wearer. Any small gap / fold would produce sweat pooling / manoeuvring difficulties. As there is little tolerance available, the specific production of the suit to suit each astronauts unique figure is prohibitive as opposed to more generic volumetric suits that can be adapted to multiple wearers. In future, there may be fabrics and materials that allow more generic adaptability to multiple wearers, bringing predicted cost down per user, and this is an active topic of research (I think MIT produced a prototype recently). | |
| Dec 2 at 7:37 | comment | added | IMSoP | What was the downside that meant humans don't (yet?) use such suits? | |
| Dec 2 at 4:17 | history | answered | flox | CC BY-SA 4.0 |