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Vote on NASA's Z-2 Suit Design
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#32I saw a pretty fly space suit at the top of the page. I saw some very disappointing things that looked like a 12 year old made them with duct tape. I got to choose between those disappointments. I then read that these won't even make it to space. I hereby conclude that this is a pretty bad PR move.
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#33Why do we need manned missions, is there something a drone can't do?
A drone can't be a human
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#34I can already hear all the complaints about having the public weigh in on this, and even on the waste of organizing it, but I think this is a pretty brilliant move on the part of Nasa. There's far too little to 'inspire' kids anymore and I imagine far fewer kids saying they want to be astronauts. This does the double duty of involving the public even in a tiny way and of hopefully coming up with a design that moves p…
I'm super bummed the first image on the page is "Buzz Lightyear" themed, and then not an option for the actual vote. I want to live in a world where Buzz Lightyear looking spacemen are a real thing.
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#35To infinity and beyond? http://wordlesstech.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/NASAs-Z-1...
It bums me out this isn't an actual option for the vote, I thought the same thing as soon as I saw it and got very excited to place my vote, only to find it wasn't an actual option.
Re: Vote on NASA's Z-2 Suit Design
#36Space has extremely high contrast light conditions due to the lack of reflective materials in a vacuum, shadows have zero visible detail. To counter act that effect you'd want an all white suit to help diffuse as much reflected light as possible.
> No, as the Z-series is still in the prototype or non-flight phase. The cover layer of a non-flight suit, which is used for ground-based testing, serves as abrasion/snag protection, a cover for technical details, and to a lesser extent, aesthetics. For a flight suit which is actually used for a spacewalk, the cover layer performs many other important functions such as micrometeorite, thermal and radiation protection. These requirements drive selection of specific high-performance materials and design details that would preclude us from using many of the features you see in these options for the Z-2 suit.
Basically this is just them allowing people to have impact on what the next iteration looks like, not what the actual suit will look like.
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#37Completely PR. Design can't even be used in space.
You're just stating the obvious, I think the idea here is that it's great PR.
Didn't comment either way as to whether is was good/bad PR. Just letting everyone know that you're not voting on anything that will actually make it to space.
Not that it is consequential in either way, it's just even less consequential since you're voting on how the on earth trial suit will look, and it won't have any bearing on what the final suit looks like.
Re: Vote on NASA's Z-2 Suit Design
#38Why do we need manned missions, is there something a drone can't do?
React intelligently in real time five light-minutes from Earth.