Vote on NASA's Z-2 Suit Design
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Vote on NASA's Z-2 Suit Design
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Re: Vote on NASA's Z-2 Suit Design
#2Completely PR. Design can't even be used in space.
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#3To infinity and beyond?
http://wordlesstech.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/NASAs-Z-1...
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#4I 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 people a bit as well.
Both good things in my book.
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#5Completely PR. Design can't even be used in space.
Reasoning please. (genuine interest)
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#6Completely 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.
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#7In case people comment without scrolling to the bottom and reading the FAQ:
"Is the design that is selected going to fly to space?
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. "
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#8Completely PR. Design can't even be used in space.
$4.4 million has been spent to manufacture and test it. Seems like it that's a stretch too far for PR from NASA.
Why couldn't it be used in space?
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#9Why do they all look like the astronauts made the suits themselves out of duct tape?
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#10What about fast-tracking the skin tight futuristic one being worked on at MIT?
http://www.businessinsider.com/dava-newmans-skintight-spaces...