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...technological accomplishment, the three-man mission had a 1960s twang. During his 13-minute sortie outside the Shenzhou VII capsule, Zhai Zhigang demonstrated the effectiveness of a Chinese spacesuit, retrieved a rack attached to the outside of the capsule that was part of a lubricants test, had a "Greetings, earthlings" cameo (Zhai's actual words: "Greetings to all the people of the nation and all the people of the world") and brandished a Chinese flag...
NASA's New Spacesuit...
COSMOS CHIC MIT's design for a skintight, agile spacesuit could let astronauts walk, run and even scale mountains on planets and moons...
Neil Armstrong's 1969 lunar landing may have been a giant leap for mankind, but his big, bulky spacesuit made it look more like a slow shuffle...
...anti-spacesuit spacesuit is made of an elastic, skintight material, lightweight enough to allow astronauts to walk, run or even scale mountains on a moon or planet's surface - acts that are physically impossible using NASA's current Tin Man-like designs. The form-fitting style of the new suit doesn't just make for a beguiling photo op; it also keeps astronauts alive by creating what scientists call mechanical counter pressure, which balances out the vacuum pull of space. The spacesuits worn today use gas pressurization - they create a small Earth-like atmosphere inside the suit, which exerts...