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NASA's New Space Suit Is Life-Saving, Slimming
- ryanwaggoner 17y agoWhen 2020 rolls around, and astronauts are stepping onto the Moon or Mars... Sadly, no. Definitely not NASA, and I doubt even private industry or China / India will be there by then.
- ugh 17y agoCould be off by five years but I think it’s doable. Depends on how fast the US recovers.
- nradov 17y agoIf NASA puts astronauts back on the moon by 2025 I will eat my hat. They have no credible plan or sufficient funding to do it. And funding for manned spaceflight is likely to be cut further due to competing budget priorities.
- TNO 17y agoOr more likely, depends on how fast the US decides to care about it.
- ars 17y agoNo radiation shielding?
- hga 17y agoNo, a little is worse because secondary particles are worse than primary. The best thing to do when caught in a solar event beyond the van Allen belts is to hunker down behind a big thick shield; Heinlein covered this in Podkayne of Mars.