The spacesuits that NASA is currently employing on the International Space Station are getting older.
"NASA is now using spacesuits on the International Space Station that were really created in the 1970s. The space shuttle programme served as the inspiration for the creation of these suits. Owing to a lack of funds, NASA continued to work on, repair, and maintain them for all of these years. Yet, they are actually out-of-date suits, according to Pablo De León, the head of the Human Spaceflight Laboratory at the University of North Dakota.
Finding the right sizes for its increasingly diversified astronaut corps has proven to be a challenge for NASA, and certain suit components have degraded as a result.
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