A robotic relic of the Space Age is going up for auction later this month for an estimated price of US$80,000. Looking like C3PO's down-at-heel cousin, the PDAD and was designed to test spacesuits. It's is part of R R Auction's Elite 100 Auction in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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To keep future space explorers on their feet, MIT researchers are developing a new space boot that uses built-in sensors and tiny "haptic" motors to help guide the wearer around obstacles by means of vibrations.
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Our stereotype of a spacesuit is one of a bulky white outfit. But if an MIT team has any say, the spacesuit of the future will be a snug, form-fitting outfit that’s not only lighter and more flexible but also easier to get on, automatically tightening up to a proper fit at the touch of a button.
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The votes are in as NASA announced on Wednesday the winner of its Z-2 spacesuit design challenge with the “Technology” option taking the prize with 233,431 votes, or about 63 percent of the total vote.
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On Tuesday, Bonhams auction house is selling a bumper crop of space exploration artifacts as part of its sixth annual Space History Sale in New York. The auction will see 296 lots of memorabilia from the US and Soviet space programs go on the block, including Mercury-era space suit.
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NASA has gone a touch sartorial as it asks the public to vote on the design of its new prototype Z-2 spacesuit. TYhe Z-2 not only includes a number of technical innovations, but also a design that for the first time has an eye on the aesthetics of living and working in outer space.
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NASA has invented a snorkel for a spacesuit. It isn’t some bureaucratic error, but a serious piece of life-saving engineering inspired by an incident in July, when an astronaut on the International Space Station (ISS) almost drowned in his own helmet when water started leaking in.
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NASA is carrying out initial tests on a new, lighter spacesuit for use by the crew of the Orion spacecraft currently under development. The spacesuit will be used for extravehicular activities (EVAs), such as recovering samples from a relocated asteroid.
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On October 8, three teams in various parts of the world participated in an unprecedented simultaneous test of three experimental spacesuits as part of World Space Walk 2013, which aims to set standards for developing suits for the future exploration of the planet Mars.
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NASA has announced an Asteroid Grand Challenge aimed at protecting the Earth while exploiting the resources of the asteroid belt.
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