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05-01-2014, 10:30 PM
NASA's New Spacesuit Design Looks Like Something From 'Tron'
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As engineers and scientists work hard to build tech**logies that astronauts could one day use to live and work on Mars, the future of spacesuits is looking stylish too. Or at least, fittingly, like something out of a science-fiction movie.
NASA recently asked the public to vote (http://jscfeatures.jsc.nasa.gov/z2/) on its next three generations of spacesuit prototypes, and it an**unced its first winner: the "tech**logy" suit, a gray body with splashes of vibrant turquoise. The torso emits light so crew members can spot the wearer during dark spacewalks. The design resembles an outfit from the film Tron, while the previous suit took more of a Buzz Lightyear approach (http://www.nasa.gov/content/the-z-1/#.U2J2jq1dXZA). Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/01/nasa-spacesuit-z-2/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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As engineers and scientists work hard to build tech**logies that astronauts could one day use to live and work on Mars, the future of spacesuits is looking stylish too. Or at least, fittingly, like something out of a science-fiction movie.
NASA recently asked the public to vote (http://jscfeatures.jsc.nasa.gov/z2/) on its next three generations of spacesuit prototypes, and it an**unced its first winner: the "tech**logy" suit, a gray body with splashes of vibrant turquoise. The torso emits light so crew members can spot the wearer during dark spacewalks. The design resembles an outfit from the film Tron, while the previous suit took more of a Buzz Lightyear approach (http://www.nasa.gov/content/the-z-1/#.U2J2jq1dXZA). Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/01/nasa-spacesuit-z-2/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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