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WOULD you pay $250,000 for a pair of gloves? That’s what NASA is offering to the winners of its Astronaut Glove Challenge.
Bending fingers inside pressurised gloves in space is difficult – a day’s worth of precision work often results in bruises, abrasions and damaged fingernails. So NASA is holding a competition this week in Titusville, Florida. At least two teams are expected to compete. Among them will be engineer Peter Homer, who took home $200,000 at the first challenge in 2007 and is now developing his glove for use…
