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Re:New Spacesuit Unveiled for Starliner Astronauts by ChuckMcM on Thursday January 26, 2017 @01:11AM (#13489129)
So I assume the starliner has touch screens too, when I saw those on the Dragon Crew I thought "Gee how are they going to use those in gloves?" Sking and trying to use your phone is challenging this is just flying through space :-).

While not EVA suits they presumably work during a depressurization event so I wonder if they are candidates for mars suits.

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Re:New Spacesuit Unveiled for Starliner Astronauts by kalleboo on Thursday January 26, 2017 @05:56AM (#13490352)
Resistive touch screens still exist, and would probably still be preferable from a reliability point of view (I have all kinds of troubles with capacitive screens when there's sweat, humidity, low temperatures, etc)
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Re:New Spacesuit Unveiled for Starliner Astronauts by ChuckMcM on Thursday January 26, 2017 @01:11PM (#13493699)
Oddly I've found resistive touchscreens to be less reliable but anecdotes are not data so it could just be I'm unlucky.

One of the interesting things I also find is that using a touch screen on CalTrain while it bounces around is difficult, I can't imagine what it will be like to hit the correct control button on the touch screen of a rocket under boost.

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Re:New Spacesuit Unveiled for Starliner Astronauts by greglindahl on Thursday January 26, 2017 @02:04AM (#13489323)
They make ski under-gloves with touchscreen tips. I desperately needed under-gloves once and ended up buying the super-expensive kind from the store at the resort, they worked well with an iPhone.
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