Designing Spacesuits with Better Mobility for Astronauts
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Space suits for astronauts may get a new and better design following a University of Houston doctoral student's locomotion stability research.
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By RASHA MADKOUR  HOUSTON - For the second straight day, spacewalking astronauts toiled on a brand-new 17 1/2-ton addition to the international space station, removing protective covers and loosening latches and bolts that held the hardware down during the jolting ride into orbit.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - The U.S. space shuttle Atlantis astronauts on Friday put on their spacesuits, scrambled into their ship and buckled in for launch. But the crew will have to wait another few weeks for actual liftoff.
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Johnson Space Center and SpaceRef.com report, âIf you look carefully at the large version of this image [of the International Space Station] you will see a 5th generation iPod attached to a Belkin external battery pack on the equipment rack directly in front of [astronaut] Thomas Reiter.â
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Smart clothing that adjusts to body temperature and moisture is being developed by British researchers. Their inspiration: pine cones.
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Luxury retailer Neiman Marcus may have the perfect gift idea for the loved one who wants to get away from it all: a space trip that includes a spectacular view of Earth and a chance to experience weightlessness.
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While the exploration of the Moon and other planets in our solar system is&nbsp;exciting, the first task for astronauts and robots alike is to actually&nbsp;get to those destinations.
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Honda introduced a new version of its humanoid robot that can jog, find its way around obstacles and respond to human touch. Developers of the robot, which looks like a child in an astronaut suit
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Bones McCoy jobless before even born NASA is to carry out a contest between human and robotic surgeons in conditions of zero gravity this week.â¦
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JackBootâ¢? March-o-Maticâ¢? YompBotâ¢? A team of researchers at MIT have developed a rather clever new twist on the conventional powered exoskeleton idea*. Rather than seeking to amplify the strength of the wearer's own muscles, the relatively simple MIT rig is intended merely to transfer the load of a heavy backpack directly to the ground, which allows very low power consumption.â¦
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HAMPTON -- When the space shuttle Atlantis re-enters Earth's atmosphere at somewhere around Mach 20 today, a small piece of a protective thermal blanket will be held together with surgical staples and metal pins.
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Keeping an astronaut crew in tip-top shape during lengthy treks to and from distant Mars may demand portable gravity.
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Washington, D.C., start-up Orbital Outfitters shows off a prototype of its first pressurized suit for the commercial space industry at the 2007 X Prize Cup.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - A spacewalking NASA astronaut pitched two large pieces of obsolete equipment off the International Space Station and into orbit on Monday.
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China's astronaut outfitters design material for spacewalk suits BEIJING -- Chinese scientists have developed a material that the country's astronauts can wear for the country's first planned spacewalks on the Shenzhou VII mission next year, according to a Beijing newspaper.
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Having trouble falling asleep? Mattresses promoting technology developed by NASA may help.
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Researchers think our body clock could mean humans find it difficult to adapt to life in space.