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    The Original Sin of NASA Space Suits

    They were never designed to fit everyone perfectly.
    by Marina Koren Mar 27, 2019 5 minutes
    Source: Johnson Space Center / NASA

    The crew of the International Space Station spends most of their time inside, but sometimes they venture out. Astronauts have conducted more than 200 space walks in the past two decades, often to spruce up the station, and on the next one, two astronauts are scheduled to replace some old solar-panel batteries. It was going to be a historic excursion: For the first time in history, both of the spacewalkers would be women.

    That was the plan. But on Monday, just days before Anne McClain and Christina Koch were supposed to float outside, NASA announced that McClain had been replaced with a male astronaut, Nick

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