NASA has unveiled a new generation of spacesuits, spacesuits, and Z-2s designed to walk on the Moon, Mars, and possibly some other extraterrestrial object where a spacecraft could land.
First time after almost thirty years NASA decided to a complete overhaul of the suit and they charged for it Amy Ross. Each space suit will be customized for the mission, the astronauts doing, the planetary gravity and so on. They imagined the design students at Philadelphia University under led by engineer Shane McFarland. They presented three design options with the same technology and gave the public a choice. The winning design will be announced on April 30, 2014.
The most noticeable difference, aside from the appearance, is rigid shell on the back. It's called Suitplate Interface Port and enables astronauts easy getting in and out of the dress through airlock. It also serves as a connection point for portable oxygen backpack, heat regulation and other functions. Futuristic visual image of space Z-2 suits create electroluminescent wires. The dress has passed many tests, including exposure in a vacuum chamber. It's an interesting story, according to Ross the experience of a test astronaut on one of the tests. Immediately after being separated from all life support systems in the vacuum chamber, he is said to have felt boiling saliva on his tongue. Fortunately, the astronaut survived, however Ross says: "You pay the highest price for the smallest mistakes - these are human lives".
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