{"id":138454,"date":"2019-03-28T23:01:18","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T05:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=138454"},"modified":"2019-03-28T23:01:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T05:01:18","slug":"nasas-space-suit-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/28\/nasas-space-suit-problem.html","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#8217;s space suit problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA had a bit of egg on its face recently when it had to cancel a two-woman space walk because, well, they only had one space suit in their mutual size.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/heinlein-space-suit.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-138455 aligncenter\" title=\"heinlein space suit\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/heinlein-space-suit.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/heinlein-space-suit.png 375w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/heinlein-space-suit-101x150.png 101w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/heinlein-space-suit-202x300.png 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 85vw, 375px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But the reality is actually more complex &#8212; and even less complimentary to NASA and the general state of the nation&#8217;s space planning. The existing wardrobe of space suit pieces is over 40 years old, designed for the space shuttle program. NASA doesn&#8217;t have the budget to make new ones, and, as importantly, doesn&#8217;t know what sort of space suits to make as US space priorities seem to change every 4-8 years.<\/p>\n<p><em>Do you want to know more?\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2019\/03\/nasa-spacesuit-women-spacewalk\/585805\/\">NASA Space Suits Were Never Designed to Fit Everyone &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever seen or read SF that thought about this particular issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,108,82],"tags":[470],"class_list":["post-138454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hi-tech","category-history","category-space","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/heinlein-space-suit.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133369,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/28\/were-running-out-of-space-suits.html","url_meta":{"origin":138454,"position":0},"title":"We&#039;re running out of &#8230; space suits?","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 28-Apr-17 5:54pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The current suits are \"prohibitively expensive\" to make more of, have suffered unexpected attrition (due to shuttle disasters, mostly), and are reaching their expiry date. 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