The article linked below discusses the recent controversy concerning the ill-fitting spacesuit complication that resulted in a canceled “all female spacewalk”. It explains that astronaut McClain had trained on Earth using both large and medium spacesuit sizes, but that in space the medium spacesuit was better fitting due to body changes caused low gravity.
I don’t understand that. I thought low gravity made astronauts taller and clustered water weight in their heads and extremities. If anything, it would seem to me that a person that can use both sizes on Earth would be more comfortable using a larger size in space. What body changes can a low gravity environment cause that would skew an astronaut down instead of up a spacesuit size?
Why would the medium suit fit better in space?
Article: https://www.yahoo.com/news/nasa-explains-why-didn-t-230610096.html
Submitted March 29, 2019 at 04:19PM by scottsmith_brownsbur https://ift.tt/2I6rJwT
No comments:
Post a Comment