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POPSSpace and Advanced Technology - A Future Space Suit Imagine that you are aboard a space station, spun to simulate Earth's normal gravity. After instruction, you have been given a suit to try out: there it hangs on the wall, a gray, rubbery-looking thing with a transparent helmet. You take it down, heft its substantial weight, strip, and step in through the open seam on the front.
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POPSAncient Astronaut in the Andes Website reproduces archaeological engravings from the Tiwanaku civilizaiton in Bolivia, arguing that they depict an aquatic alien in helmeted spacesuit. Website also takes a fresh look at the Nazca Lines in Peru, claiming that they date from the same time period as the Tiwanaku drawings, sixth century A.D., and concern the same ancient astronaut.
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POPSSvelte Spacesuit MIT prof Dava Newman is working on a spacesuit that does away with the bulky gas-pressurization that makes astronauts look so much less cool than in the movies. --Matt Herper
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POPSNew suit Design Read about skin-tight nanosuits at foresight institute in 'Engines of Creation'
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