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Designing Clothing for Space Travel
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2014-03-22 00:53:35, 조회 : 1,749 |
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Designing Clothing for Space Travel
With a short hop to the International Space Station, you don't need to worry too much about dirty clothes. But a trip to Mars or the moons of Jupiter will require careful packing, beginning with how your wardrobe is designed.
Since detergent and water will be out of the picture, doing laundry will pose problems for astronauts on long-term missions. (Currently, dirty space clothes are simply ejected with other trash that burns up in the Earth's atmosphere.) So the best solutions may be recyclable fabrics and even 3‑D printing of garments, suggests Karl Aspelund, an assistant professor of design at the University of Rhode Island.
Self-cleaning clothes would be ideal in space, so antimicrobial fabrics will be among the options that Aspelund and his team of researchers investigate. Their goal is to produce prototype garments for testing on the International Space Station in 2014.
Even if you bring the ideal space wardrobe with you, clothes do have a tendency to wear out. On missions that may last years, decades, or longer, and no opportunity to order clothes from home, manufacturing options such as 3‑D printing might be useful.
Thinking even further outside the space capsule, some scientists have suggested using sprays that cover the body instead of fabrics. \"We may need to retire the whole idea of clothing as we know it,'' Aspelund said in a press release. —Cindy Wagner
Source: University of Rhode Island
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