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#Spacesuit technology has changed very little in 50 years. Astronauts still spacewalk in rigid, air-filled suits that make movement difficult - and which are often built to fit male astronauts’ physiques. Research on a new design has been ongoing for two decades. The skintight ‘BioSuit’, developed by Apollo Program Professor of Astronautics Dava Newman and her team at @MITnews, aims to give #astronauts the flexibility of ‘an Olympic athlete’, while still protecting them from low pressure, extrem

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