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November 4, 2020 | NEWS

MIT Portugal Director featured in Scientific American magazine

MIT Portugal Director, Prof. Dava Newman, featured in Scientific American magazine. 
Dava Newman and her graduate student Cody Paige are working on future space suits built from new advanced materials. 
“Future space suits have to be lightweight, easy to move in, and better at protecting astronauts from hazards such as micrometeorites and radiation”, says Professor Newman. The next space suit might look and fit more like a wet suit. Astronauts could don multiple layers like a spring skier and don a radiation-shielding overcoat when the conditions call for it. Space suits could also add shielding where it is most necessary, covering essential organs but leaving the extremities more exposed.
 

Can a moon base be safe for astronauts? 
Read the full article on Scientific American.

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