Future exploration: High-tech spacesuits

Submitted by Blue Lizard: Future explorers on the Moon and Mars could be outfitted in lightweight, high-tech spacesuits that offer far more flexibility than the bulky suits that have been used for spacewalks in the 1960s.

Research is under way at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on a Bio-Suit System that incorporates a suit designed to augment a person’s biological skin by providing mechanical counter-pressure.

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Yay! They are finally doing something about advancing those old space suits. Although I am not so sure I want a second skin" in space. I would rather have something more protective just in case they finally find those elusive aliens and they don't prove to be friendly...