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An outfit suitable for Mars

Here is an article about my spacesuit symposium at the TMSC...

Published online: 16 August 2005;
An outfit suitable for Mars

Slimmer space suits on the wrack for astronauts. Kendall Powell

The gas-pressurized space suits used by astronauts for space walks and moon landings would never work on Mars. That's the consensus, at least among astrobiologists and simulation experts at the Eighth International Mars Society Convention, which took place 11-14 August in Boulder, Colorado.

More at: http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050815/full/050815-3.html

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