Historic Shuttle Spacesuits to Meet Fiery End

collectSPACE writes "While some museums bid for retired space shuttle orbiters, the real prize may be the spacewalking spacesuits, at least if NASA's plans for them hold true. The now-reusable extravehicular mobility units (EMUs) are soon to become disposable, allowed to disintegrate as they reenter the Earth's atmosphere inside spent cargo ships."

Comments

I just hope....

[edwardpickman]

they take the astronauts out first.

Re:I just hope....

[monk.e.boy]

...allowed to disintegrate as they reenter the Earth's atmosphere inside spent cargo ships.

Finally NASA come up with a solution for my dirty underpants problem.

(insert joke about skid marks)

monk.e.boy

Misread on first sight

[Tribbin]

"Historic Shuttle Spacesuits to Meet Fiery End"

Who also though on first sight that it was about Shuttleworth and Feisty Fawn?

Have you read why this is?

[Anonymous Coward]

One of the many times when /.ers should RTFA.

The suits are going to be destroyed because the new Orion Shuttle replacement cannot support returning suited astronauts to the ground.

It's not big enough, or it's got weight problems.

Fer F***s sake, this doesn't sound like a replacement, or an advance. It sounds like a f*****g retreat. We are now so crap we can't bring suits back.

I suggest we give the all the suits to the Russians. At least they still seem to have an advancing space programme!

Re:Have spacesuit, will travel

[Mindwarp]

"Couldn't they give them away in a jingle-writing contest?"

Sure they could, but the winner would have to pay for Postage and Packing.