Comments on: Spacewalk cut short due to spacesuit water leak https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacewalk-cut-short-due-to-spacesuit-water-leak/ Sun, 17 Jan 2016 03:33:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: LocalFluff https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacewalk-cut-short-due-to-spacesuit-water-leak/#comment-841923 Sun, 17 Jan 2016 03:33:37 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=37488#comment-841923 I think a space suit with the problem fixed was lost with the Dragon at launch last year. The payload lost contained unusually valuable equipment for the ISS.

]]> By: Tom Billings https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacewalk-cut-short-due-to-spacesuit-water-leak/#comment-841752 Fri, 15 Jan 2016 18:18:34 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=37488#comment-841752 Well, there *are* solutions to the problem. Use skin suits, or better yet, one of the new Associate Administrator Dava Newman’s painted on suits. I wonder if she’ll be appearing at the Astronaut Office with a bright and cheery smile on her face. I know the people who’ve dominated those contracts over the years should be waving bye-bye to any new contracts.

Of course, slashing the tech development budget, again, hasn’t put NASA in a good place for this. The interesting question for me is how soon could they get to orbit a 3d printer to make new cool suits, or even entire suits. That, of course, would require innovation,and Congress will frown.

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