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One Giant Leap for Space Fashion: MIT Team Designs Sleek Skintight SpacesuitIn the 40 years that humans have been traveling into space, the suits they wear have changed very little.
The bulky, gas-pressurized outfits give astronauts a bubble of protection, but their significant mass and the pressure itself severely limit mobility.
Dava Newman, a professor of aeronautics and astronautics and engineering systems at MIT, wants to change that.
Newman is working on a sleek, advanced suit designed to allow superior mobility when humans eventually reach Mars or return to the moon.
Her spandex and nylon BioSuit is not your grandfather's spacesuit - think more Spiderman, less John Glenn.
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