Live: ISS Spacewalk

Re:Live: ISS Spacewalk by purplelobster on Friday April 19, 2013 @12:28PM (#5577436)

Looks about as much fun as building Lego with mittens. Must be frustrating as hell.

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Re:Live: ISS Spacewalk by jamesmontalvo3 on Friday April 19, 2013 @05:49PM (#5578869)

The Russian Orlan suit [1] is pressurized higher than the US EMU [2], and gloves are not as dexterous. I don't know a lot about Russian spacewalks, but US gloves have caused fingernail delamination in many people, including myself (I'm not an astronaut, but I work with this hardware a lot).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlan_space_suits

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extravehicular_Mobility_Unit

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Re:Live: ISS Spacewalk by bjz_ on Friday April 19, 2013 @02:58PM (#5578147)

One of the less-publicised facts is that working in the pressurized gloves sometimes causes their fingernails to fall off.

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Re:Live: ISS Spacewalk by ilink on Friday April 19, 2013 @01:56PM (#5577863)

I was thinking it looks like assembling IKEA furniture in space.

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