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#Shrink-wrapping spacesuits For future astronauts the process of suiting up may go something like this:

Now MIT researchers are one step closer to engineering such an active second-skin spacesuit: Dava Newman a professor of aeronautics and astronautics and engineering systems at MIT and her colleagues have engineered active compression garments that incorporate small springlike coils that contract in response to heat.

With conventional spacesuits you re essentially in a balloon of gas that s providing you with the necessary one-third of an atmosphere of pressure to keep you alive in the vacuum of space says Newman who has worked for the past decade to design a formfitting flexible spacesuit of the future.

While skintight spacesuits have been proposed in the past there s been one persistent design hurdle: how to squeeze in and out of a pressurized suit that s engineered to be extremely tight.

As for where the coils may be threaded within a spacesuit Holschuh is contemplating several designs. For instance an array of coils may be incorporated into the center of a suit with each coil attached to a thread that radiates to the suit s extremities.

Or smaller arrays of coils could be placed in strategic locations within a spacesuit to produce localized tension

and spacesuit pioneer ILC Dover to develop its proprietary UV-and weather-resistant fabric. B The first commercial BAT will house a 30-kilowatt turbine

only going outside if dressed in a spacesuit, and having limited access to the internet.

flexible film typically used to manufacture flexible printed circuits and the outside layer of spacesuits. Researchers were able to easily peel off the sensors from the curved film without compromising their functioning.

-and would be needed for any humans hoping to breathe on Mars without a spacesuit. Nasa has toyed with the idea before;