“None of our spacesuits are spring chickens.”Hand Me DownsNASA’s spacesuits, which its astronauts use to venture outside the International Space Station, are really starting to show their age.In June, NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson was alarmed to discover water squirting from her spacesuit and covering her visor with ice, forcing the agency to call off the planned spacewalk. In the same month, NASA called off yet another spacewalk due to a “spacesuit discomfort” issue plaguing NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick.The space agency’s extravehicular mobility unit (EMU), essentially a self-sufficient spacecraft in the…
