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This Spacesuit’s ‘Take Me Home’ Button Could Rescue Astronauts Adrift In Space
Imagine the frightening scenario – dramatised in movies such as Gravity and 2001 – where an astronaut gets sick or disoriented during a spacewalk. Confused, and on the cusp of losing consciousness, she struggles to operate the suit’s jetpack. Unable to get her bearings, and without a tether to keep her secured to the space…