Making space travel sexy again...

Dava Newman, a professor of aeronautics and astronautics and engineering systems at MIT, has been working together with local design office Trotti and Associates on a new space suit design. The suit relies on materials incorporated in the suit to keep the astronaut pressurized, as opposed to gas pressure on current much heavier suits.



link: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/biosuit-0716.html