Here’s an interesting article I just read via the Drudge Report so I thought I would link it here. Apparently Japan is interested in testing out a new prototype space pant to see how it holds up. The test: wear said pant for a month and analyze the results. Poor Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata was the unlucky guinea pig in this sick experiment.
Designed to resist the rigours of lengthy space travel, the anti-static, flame-resistant, odour-eating, bacteria-killing, water-absorbent smalls have been put through their paces as part of a project aimed at ensuring that future space travellers will need only minimal space in their suitcases.
“We’re going to go beyond the Moon some day, and little things like this will seem like really, really big things when you’re far away from Mother Earth,” Mike Suffredini, manager of Nasa’s space station programme, said.
The test went well and none of Wakata-san’s fellow crew members complained of the ’stank. Apparently, despite the near infiniteness of space it is important to leave that extra change of clothes during those long hibernation pod trips to Celestion 4. I just wonder what people on Earth will do once they get their hands on such pants. On second thought…
Source: Timesonline.uk
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