MIT SCIENTISTS DEVELOP REVOLUTIONARY SLEEK SPACE SUITS

Suits for space flight have been notoriously bulky and gas pressurized to give our space explorers the protection needed in space. These light and stylish designs have been transformed into to protypes that will be pitched to NASA and future Mars explorers. MIT researchers note the low fuctionality of many of the current space suit designs"by asserting that, "About 70 to 80 percent of the energy they exert while wearing the suit goes towards simply working against the suit to bend it. "
This goes to show that style and fuctionality may be the new frontier of Business on Mars...
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