Are Robot Pants The Future Spacesuit?

Are Robot Pants The Future Spacesuit?

The coolest part of space flight has got to be the weightlessness—but it’s also the most problematic. Under zero-g, muscles atrophy, heart rate changes, blood pressure increases, and bones demineralize by 1% to 2% for every month of space flight. With some astronauts remaining aloft for a year or more, that’s an awful lot of potential damage. Exercise helps; astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) are required to spend two hours …