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Looks about as much fun as building Lego with mittens. Must be frustrating as hell.
by purplelobster 14y ago
Looks about as much fun as building Lego with mittens. Must be frustrating as hell.
- ilink 14y agoI was thinking it looks like assembling IKEA furniture in space.
- bjz_ 14y agoOne of the less-publicised facts is that working in the pressurized gloves sometimes causes their fingernails to fall off.
- jamesmontalvo3 14y agoThe Russian Orlan suit [1] is pressurized higher than the US EMU [2], and gloves are not as dexterous. I don't know a lot about Russian spacewalks, but US gloves have caused fingernail delamination in many people, including myself (I'm not an astronaut, but I work with this hardware a lot). [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlan_space_suits http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlan_space_suits [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extravehicular_Mobility_Unit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extravehicular_Mobility_Unit