jaxgator
12-21-2012, 12:47pm
It might make the astronaut wearing it look like a real-life Buzz Lightyear, but a new prototype spacesuit that NASA just finished testing represents the first major overhaul in spacesuit technology since 1998.
Flexible, white, and lime green accented, the suit — known as the Z-1 — is designed not only to help astronauts comfortably maneuver during spacewalks in microgravity, but also to deftly move about when walking on the surface of a planet or other smaller heavenly body, like an asteroid.
http://i.livescience.com/images/i/000/034/776/original/Z-1Spacesuit.jpg?1356069762
Full story: New NASA Spacesuit Looks like Buzz Lightyear's | Z-1 Prototype Photos | LiveScience (http://www.livescience.com/25744-nasa-z1-future-spacesuit.html)
Life imitates art? :funny:
Flexible, white, and lime green accented, the suit — known as the Z-1 — is designed not only to help astronauts comfortably maneuver during spacewalks in microgravity, but also to deftly move about when walking on the surface of a planet or other smaller heavenly body, like an asteroid.
http://i.livescience.com/images/i/000/034/776/original/Z-1Spacesuit.jpg?1356069762
Full story: New NASA Spacesuit Looks like Buzz Lightyear's | Z-1 Prototype Photos | LiveScience (http://www.livescience.com/25744-nasa-z1-future-spacesuit.html)
Life imitates art? :funny: