{"id":6962,"date":"2014-03-18T05:38:32","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T05:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6962"},"modified":"2014-03-18T05:38:32","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T05:38:32","slug":"skinsuit-to-be-tested-on-iss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6962","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Skinsuit&#8217; to be tested on ISS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A skin-tight body suit developed by a group at King&#8217;s College London led by Dr David Green\u00a0will be tested on the International Space Station to see if it counter-acts some of the detrimental effects of weightlessness :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/newsevents\/news\/newsrecords\/2014\/January\/Skinsuit-to-help-astronauts-avoid-back-problems-in-space.aspx\" target=\"_d\">&#8216;Skinsuit&#8217; to help astronauts avoid back problems in space &#8211; King&#8217;s College London<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/health-26459354\" target=\"_d\">Skin-tight spacesuits to help astronauts&#8217; spines in space &#8211; BBC News<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0&#8211; incl. video report<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/article\/science\/skin-tight-gravity-mimicking-suit-gets-ready-go-space\" target=\"_d\">Skin-Tight, Gravity-Mimicking Suit Gets Ready To Go To Space &#8211; Popular Science<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/aeroastro\/www\/people\/dnewman\/pdf2\/WaldieNewman_AA_GLCS_2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">A gravity loading countermeasure skinsuit, by\u00a0James M. Waldie and\u00a0Dava J. Newman(MIT) &#8211;\u00a0Acta Astronautica 68 (2011) 722\u2013730 (pdf)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>EAC\u2019s crew medical support office is working with King\u2019s College London and the MIT to test prototypes, and ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen will be the first to wear the suit in space during a mission in early 2015, where he will evaluate it from a functional perspective. If successful UK astronaut Tim Peake could potentially wear the skinsuit on his mission to the International Space Station later in 2015.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/newsevents\/news\/newsrecords\/2014\/January\/Skinsuit-to-help-astronauts-avoid-back-problems-in-space.aspx\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2014\/01\/skinsuit_kings_college\/13477387-1-eng-GB\/Skinsuit_Kings_College_large.jpg\" width=\"438\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>The skinsuit could also be used on Earth to counteract the effects of ageing on bone density and muscle mass.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Carvil added: \u2018The space environment provides ideal conditions for studying ageing because of the acceleration of muscle and bone wastage in space. At King\u2019s we\u2019re conducting further tests to examine the practicality of wearing the skinsuit both in space and here on Earth as well as investigating further terrestrial applications.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A skin-tight body suit developed by a group at King&#8217;s College London led by Dr David Green\u00a0will be tested on the International Space Station to see if it counter-acts some of the detrimental effects of weightlessness : &#8216;Skinsuit&#8217; to help astronauts avoid back problems in space &#8211; King&#8217;s College London Skin-tight spacesuits to help astronauts&#8217; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6962\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Skinsuit&#8217; to be tested on ISS<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15,17,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-space-infrastructure","category-living-in-space","category-spaceflight-parabolic-flight"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1Oi","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5581,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5581","url_meta":{"origin":6962,"position":0},"title":"Dava Newman and her Bio-Suits for EVA + Automating space farming","author":"TopSpacer","date":"December 7, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"At a TED event this week,\u00a0Prof. Dava J. 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