Japanese Astronaut Gets Designer "Space Suit" 110
Naoko Yamazaki knows you have to look good at work even if your work is in outer space. Japanese fashion designer Tae Ashida has created a designer suit for the female astronaut to wear during her stay on the International Space Station. "As a female designer, I chose a design and colour with a sense of grace ... so that she can feel at ease as she carries out a tough mission in a male-dominated, bleak atmosphere. It's like a dream come true to see my clothes worn in space," said Ashida. "I'm looking forward to seeing her wear my design."
Re:slow news day? (Score:3, Interesting)
"This is GAP for the Japanese Space Agency. Boo!"
What's wrong with that? the more everyday stuff that gets involved in space, means space is getting more accessible.
Re:Misleading title (Score:5, Interesting)
And BTW some people are working on space suit (proper) technology which does end up looking rather fashionable; relying on the obserbation that human skin is already a pretty good "space suit", except for providing mechanical pressure:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_activity_suit [wikipedia.org]
http://mvl.mit.edu/EVA/biosuit/index.html [mit.edu]
PS. Definatelly provides an argument to my views that, while there really isn't something like too little breasts, there is something like "too big" ones - seems they have some some chance of being containing to Earth and dying out once we set for the stairs ;p
Re:If Anime taught me anything... (Score:3, Interesting)
There you go...
http://mvl.mit.edu/EVA/biosuit/index.html [mit.edu] (check the gallery)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_activity_suit [wikipedia.org]
You don't really need insulation from "cold" and vacuum - human skin is already great for those; it's almost impenetrable to gasses, and "cold" isn't the same kind of problem as in the atmoshpere (because there's no direct heat exchange) - after all, vacuum is a pretty good heat insulator (thermos...), so you have to worry mostly about overheating...and skin has great mechanism to deal with that (+ the suit being bright so it won't get too hot in sunlight). Radiation...well, shield for that can be a loose, external (even separate) layer.
The only major thing human skin lacks is mechanical rigidity; it expands in a vacuum, causing internal pressure of the body to drop. Well, suits from above links combat that expansion by providing mechanical pressure required.