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First All-Female Spacewalk Canceled Because NASA Doesn't Have Two Suits That Fit (npr.org)
The first all-female spacewalk scheduled for Friday has been cancelled by NASA (Warning: source may be paywalled; alternative source) because they don't have two spacesuits that fit the female astronauts. According to The New York Times, Anne C. McClain and Christina H. Koch both need to wear a medium-size torso component, but only one is readily available at the International Space Station. From the report: The mission itself is unchanged. On Friday, two astronauts will venture outside of the space station on a six-hour mission to install massive lithium-ion batteries that will help to power the research laboratory. Ms. Koch is still scheduled to participate, along with her fellow astronaut Nick Hague; Ms. McClain did her first spacewalk last week. But the first women-only venture outside of the confines of the space station will have to happen on another day. "After consulting with McClain and Hague following the first spacewalk, mission managers decided to adjust the assignments, due in part to spacesuit availability on the station," NASA said in a statement.
Stephanie Schierholz, a spokeswoman for NASA, said in an interview on Monday that there were already two medium-size hard upper torsos -- "essentially the shirt of the spacesuit," according to NASA -- at the space station. But there were a couple of issues. One was that Ms. McClain had thought she would be able to work in a large-size torso, but after her spacewalk last Friday, she wore a medium-size torso and learned that it fit her better. Ms. Koch also uses the same size. And of the two medium-size torsos available, one has yet to be properly configured for a spacewalk. It would take hours of crew labor -- not to mention some additional risk -- to fix that in time for Friday. Instead of doing that, NASA decided to simply switch out the astronauts. In the end, both women will have done a spacewalk -- just not together.
Stephanie Schierholz, a spokeswoman for NASA, said in an interview on Monday that there were already two medium-size hard upper torsos -- "essentially the shirt of the spacesuit," according to NASA -- at the space station. But there were a couple of issues. One was that Ms. McClain had thought she would be able to work in a large-size torso, but after her spacewalk last Friday, she wore a medium-size torso and learned that it fit her better. Ms. Koch also uses the same size. And of the two medium-size torsos available, one has yet to be properly configured for a spacewalk. It would take hours of crew labor -- not to mention some additional risk -- to fix that in time for Friday. Instead of doing that, NASA decided to simply switch out the astronauts. In the end, both women will have done a spacewalk -- just not together.
Quick! Spend $100Million to send up a second medium torso component so that the United States can claim victory in the area of extra-planetary social justice!!!
BOOM! Problem solved!
And.. diapers.
Real reason: They refused to go out in public wearing the same outfit!
What is more disappointing however is the LACK OF REDUNDANCY!!!
Seriously, this is fucking NASA and they don't have at least two spacesuits configured for each build of astronaut on the spacestation? What if there was an event on the station and some of the suits were damaged? What if there was an emergency evacuation where the station was depressurized, or have an environmental control failure resulting in the need for all astronauts to be in suits?
The space program is supposed to be all about safety and redundancy and yet the bread and butter of the astronaut's garb isn't even available in DUPLICATE onboard?
Women can't decide what to wear when they go out. News at 11.
It's not just that. Wear something incredibly revealing
so I just go with "Stuff Happens". Just send one up on the next supply ship.
;)
You know until they get things to a point where there is a bit of flexibility in operations. Real space work will be left to the private market and the future.
Just my 2 cents
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They can't be seen wearing the same outfit as someone else.
Have gnu, will travel.
I love how we have double standards. If we were to announce an ALL MALE SPACEWALK people would be running wild denouncing such sexist act.
because they don't have two spacesuits that fit the female astronauts
These do have two spacesuits that fit the female astronauts, just not ones that are tooled for this particular mission.
"Two mediums existed on the ISS, but only one was prepped for a spacewalk. Instead of devoting extensive crew time to make the extra medium-sized suit space-worthy by Friday, NASA decided to restaff"
I think it's equally important to recognize that both NASA and the astronauts are putting the mission first.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
hope she floats (tits up).
not implying NASA fakes all their spacewalks in underwater training sessions like what Flat Earthers proved with Russia & China.
I want credit bigly for saving American tax dollars on this wasteful boondoggle!
I personally made sure there was only one suit so NASA couldnt use a zillion dollar space flight to virtue signal!
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If only the all-female Ghostbusters could have been avoided so easily.
As a cis-male, I am relieved that you're someone else's problem now.
Hopefully in an emergency, any old suit torso would be ok.
Wasn't there someBNASA project to re-design the suits?
I seem to recall SpaceX was working on it too...
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they don't use the suits inside the ISS, they don't use those suits for the flight to/from the station (each capsule has it's own suit design, Russia, Spacex, NASA, and Blue Origin have different suit designs)
so what do they use the suits for besides spacewalks? What is the other torso configured for?
I thought the left wing stuff was baloney but here you cock suckers are being so terrified of women doing anything that you have to insult them. /. is full of a bunch of fucking pansy asses. What a bunch of pussy ass bitches you all are.
List of spacewalkers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Reads down to 1984. Soviet Union and the USA have done that.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
"Does this spacesuit make me look fat?"
This site is getting tiresome really quick. One leftist media story after another about some non SJW issue. Can we keep this site on topic about tech issues?
Yeah, we know. Women frighten you since you haven't been inside one since you were given birth.
I think to have an informed discussion on the matter, we need to know the measurements, including cup sizes... firmness... nipple diameters.
Don't let your tits get in the way
This site is getting tiresome really quick. One leftist media story after another about some non SJW issue. Can we keep this site on topic about tech issues?
NASA's next stunt gonna be two colored female handicapped astronaut doing The First Handicapped Minority non-male Spacewalk and you can betcha ass that /. will give it the full coverage !!
It seems to me that lack of preparation is an issue here.
... well... to fit the suits appropriately.
Even the blurb explains that the issue was that there was a planned spacewalk and although there are 6 astronauts on board the ISS at this time and there has been some time to make the decision to prepare the space suits, no one saw fit to
Who gives a shit about the gender of the astronauts beyond ensuring there is appropriate necessities in the ISS to facilitate their gender specific needs? This could have easily been a similar problem if one of the astronauts was a smaller male. They are basically two nerds, one a mechanical and aerospace engineer and the other, a physicist and electrical engineer.
This past year has been one whole year of :
- First female to win Abel award... yeh... she won it because she's a she... not because she is one of the most brilliant mathematicians of the last 70 years
- All female spacewalk cancelled... yeh, they're astronauts because they're girls, not because they both achieved top marks from top schools in areas of science and engineering.
- all female..
- first woman...
I mean seriously... what's the f-ing point here? Exceptional people are exceptional people... and moron journalists are moron journalists... done.
The size of the suit was NOT the issue; that is all just a cover for the real reason.
The real reason is that as anyone who knows anything about women knows, they are INCAPABLE of going out anywhere together once they see that they are wearing the same outfits.
ONE or both will have to change clothes, and they do not have additional spacesuits up there to cover this eventuality.
Our reign has gone on long enough. Indeed. Summon the meteors.
Yeah, we got it already. Weâ(TM)re afraid of women. Weâ(TM)re pussy ass bitches. We heard you the first 3 times, but the fact that nobody cares seems to have you upset somI didnâ(TM)t want you to feel too badly. Thanks for the feedback.
The historic space walks (EVA) got done in 1984.
Both by the Soviet Union and the USA.
Why is this a story?
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
With their lack of budget and who creates some of there products dictated by which State voted "correctly", fitting is very difficult for NASA.
They have their template suites on Earth that they use for fitting. The problem is the materials act differently that high up. The other problem is each suite is slightly different.
These suites where built between 1982 and 1986. Originally they were pretty much the same, but all hand made. Now they sometimes are repair on Earth, but other times are repaired in space with the materials available. The templates, and even the various suites just don't match anymore. Some suites they've had to bring back because they are disintegrating.
There has been a program in place to create new suites, but it has been taking a long time, particularly due to who they can work with changing every 2 years with elections, partially due to government budgets dictating what money will be spent on.
Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon what's the difference? All steal money from devs and control with walled gardens.
Long ago, there was a proposal for "skinsuits", very tightly fitted suits much like wetsuits that were completely form fitting and much lighter. The suits were also not airtight. Air (or oxygen) was fed in through the helmet, which was quite rigid, and leaked into the suit and leaked out for cooling. They relied on the strength of the fabric, and of the skin of the astronaut, to provide the mechanical support to keep the astronaut intact in vacuum. The design was much lighter than NASA and Soviet designs, and much less expensive. The operational difference was like that between a scuba diver and a the old dry suits with brass helmets and hoses. The design was lighter, took less space, and was much easier to maintain.
I do not know what has held up development for this kind of suit. The difference in weight of the suit, alone, should have saved enough fuel costs at launch time to justify research. I don't understand why the astronauts themselves have not demanded it, to improve mobility.
Really? Who gives a fuck?
Space suit design and the difficulty of fitting them is a fundamental tech issue. Two women doing a space walk together is history. On reflection, wouldn't you agree that it is news for nerds?
I find it very interesting that all these feminists both despise men talking about sex and men who don't have sex.
We all know that's what they mean by "fit."
Women need to be shown other women doing things. /sarcasm
Because they have no initiative, no imagination, complete herd mentality.
The only way to kickstart women doing anything is being told to by a man.
It's like the special Olympics but with their genitals as the handicap.
Gotta love all that progressive crypto-chauvinism.
Because "the first all female space walk" is stupid. If we're equal, then who cares?
But I'm sure this will be spun as being horribly unfair, how dare we not have enough woman-sized suits around, etc.
If feminists actually wanted progress they would want nothing said at all about this. True equality means the best person does the job without consideration of gender, ethnicity or any other personal factor. Pointing out that a task was completed only by women makes it seems as though there was some question whether it could be completed without a man. Long gone are the days when the prevailing thought is that women are incapable of technical or mechanical tasks. The battery will not be installed any differently because of the gender of the people are doing it. Concrete progress in social justice will be measured by the day when an article can say "Astronauts Shannon Miller and Marion Cruz completed a spacewalk" and we don't even know the genders of the people involved.
She couldn't go out because she didn't have a thing to wear.
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
Well, apparently NASA desperately needs astronauts with biger bra size
No one cares. I thought the point of treating people equally was that you didn't do stuff like "all female team does something that's been done before"
Why not just treat women like normal people, instead of special children that need to be placed on a pedestal?
You realize this is a worse form of objectification right?
Only 12 year-old SJWs or their emotional equivalent think the notion is anything but absurd. Nobody else cares about this. People are people. You are a joke, millennials, and you just keep getting funnier. Thank you for supplanting the now mediocre field of comedy with your antics, we need our clowns.
Space is unforgiving. Gender is absolutely irrelevant compared to safety and skill. I'm sure both women are skilled at their jobs, but safety dictated they both can't walk at the same time (for now). If that's is upsetting, get over it.
PR stunts have zero value compared to this.
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> Two women doing a space walk together is history. On reflection, wouldn't you agree that it is news for nerds?
How, precisely, are their genitals relevant to the job?
Obviously their genitalia isn't involved in any way.
Beethoven composing his greatest works after he became deaf is interesting because you might think a deaf person couldn't compose great music. Women doing spacewalks is interesting only if you're thinking "even women can do it". It's patronizing sexism, and it's infuriating to me because my four year old daughter picks up on that. She hears that it's special when a woman manages to do something, and understands your implicit reason you think it's special when a woman accomplishes something - because in general women can't accomplish anything. That's the unspoken assumption.
This is soft bigotry of low expectations.
Why is it such a big deal if women are "walking" in space?
Is it because certain people didn't expect them to be able to do so? Who are these "certain people"? Why, it's NASA and the politically correct crowd.
It seems that, hypocritically, they don't think women are as capable as men are.
There we were, all set and ready to go, sunlight reflecting off one of the transparent panels. I saw her shoulders sag, thought What now? She spins around, lifts her visor, and asks, Does this suit make me look fat?
I replied Now that's NASA ass!
Welcome to 1960, douchenozzle.
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It has extra armor plates instead of extra heat sinks and a small pulse laser. It's already at max tonnage and they didn't have anywhere to store the extra plates because the cargo bay is full after SpaceX delivered a new Long Tom cannon no one asked for.
It's not progress because women won't do what they have to do to get shit done. She already went on one EVA with the large suit and had no problem but now all of sudden she wants a different size? If she gave a shit, she'd shut the fuck up, put the large suit on, and do her fucking job like any man would. My guess is she did this shit on purpose because she didn't want to be the first woman to do anything. She didn't want the fame and the constant interviews and people giving her attention she didn't specifically demand.
Women won't ever progress. I don't know the word for it but they simply give up at the first sign of something being too hard/uncomfortable/imperfect. They won't get dirty and they won't suffer for what they want. It's pathetic.
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The crazy post from APK that claims his/their software will fix this problem? It seems to fix everything else!
Unfortunately it doesnâ(TM)t seem to be possible to do that anymore. The PR people tell you where to go, how to stand, and you better smile.
If there is a suit on board the ISS that is not ready for use, then it might as well not be there. OTOH if it's really a matter of only 12 hours of work to get it ready and usable, rearrange the schedule to get that lifeboat ship-shape. Shouldn't the first priority on any vessel be to ensure that all operational equipment is in working order, especially life-safety equipment? If the first act of a "Babylon 5" or "Battlestar Galactica" episode showed a suit still in its bubble-wrap, you could bet that by the end of the episode someone would be dead because that suit was not ready. ("Star Trek" would have had someone manage to get it ready JUST IN TIME, because "failure is not an option", but that's not always how the real world works in an emergency.)
Ms. McClain had thought she would be able to work in a large-size torso, but after her spacewalk last Friday, she wore a medium-size torso and learned that it fit her better.
I'm confused by the wording here. Is it saying she wore a large one on Friday, but then found out afterwards that a medium fit her better? Or it saying that she thought a large would fit, but instead tried a medium. Then afterwards she determined the medium fit and the large wouldn't?
...about to be in a televised all-female premiere before the nation that she dieted a bit so that the world gets told she needs a smaller space-suit.