<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/962bb924-6d7b-4c92-9327-4ad9df315908/5137BF34-51A5-4582-9B2C-56721BFC3355/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://space.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn12277&feedId=space_rss20" href="http://space.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn12277&feedId=space_rss20" style="font-size: 11px;">space.newscientist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://space.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn12277&feedId=space_rss20"><H2 class="inline">Future spacesuits to act like a second skin</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://space.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn12277&feedId=space_rss20"><P>It's a good thing astronauts tend to be so <A href="http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn11617-astronaut-completes-marathon-in-space.html">fit and trim</A>. In the future, they may have to don skintight spacesuits that, while flexible and lightweight, would be rather unforgiving to those of us who could stand to lose a few pounds.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://space.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn12277&feedId=space_rss20"><P>In the vacuum of space, there is not enough air pressure to keep fluids in the body from boiling, so astronauts need to wear pressurised spacesuits to prevent gas from building up in their tissues.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://space.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn12277&feedId=space_rss20"><P>For the last seven years, Newman and colleagues have been working on a different kind of suit (see <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18324603.500-first-people-on-mars-will-be-shrinkwrapped.html">First people on Mars will be shrink-wrapped</A>). Their "BioSuit" provides pressure by wrapping tight layers of spandex and nylon around the body – an idea first proposed by Paul Webb in the 1960s (see the 1968 <B>New Scientist</B> article <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn10537-a-porous-leotard-for-space.html">A porous leotard for space</A>).</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://space.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn12277&feedId=space_rss20"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/space.newscientist.com/img/9A1D05C3-3537-41ED-9B19-B109140754AF" alt="Dava Newman models the Biosuit on the MIT campus (Image: Donna Coveney)" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/5137BF34-51A5-4582-9B2C-56721BFC3355/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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