Made to fit (Image: Space Systems Laboratory/Department of Aerospace Engineering/University of Maryland)
FORGET the complex choreography involved in putting on a spacesuit: astronauts will one day be able to get suited and booted in seconds by stepping through the neck of an overlarge, part-robotic spacesuit.
So say engineers and at the University of Maryland in College Park.
Once you’re inside the baggy suit, its upper torso contracts using pneumatic artificial muscles to ensure a perfect fit.
Its morphing design means it should be less unwieldy than today’s suits and allow astronauts to be more efficient, both…
