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  2. Spacesuits in fiction - Wikipedia

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    Following World War II, fictional spacesuits were influenced both by the real life pressure suits and G-suits which had seen use during the war for high-altitude aviation and also by the speculative articles on space travel which were published in magazines like the Saturday Evening Post and Collier's Weekly by such space pioneers as Wernher von Braun and Willy Ley and which featured carefully ...

  3. Technologies in 2001: A Space Odyssey - Wikipedia

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    A space suit helmet featured in the film. Kubrick consulted aerospace specialists to ensure the design's accuracy. The general approach to how space travel is engineered is highly accurate; in particular, the design of the ships was based on actual engineering considerations rather than attempts to look aesthetically "futuristic". [8]

  4. Z series space suits - Wikipedia

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    The Z-1 is the first Z prototype suit constructed. The Z series [1] is a series of prototype extra-vehicular activity (EVA) space suits being developed in the Advanced Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AEMU) project under NASA's Advanced Exploration Systems (AES) program. The suits are being designed to be used for both micro-gravity and planetary ...

  5. Prada and Axiom Space aim for the moon with new astronaut suit

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    MILAN (Reuters) -Italian luxury group Prada and Houston-based startup Axiom Space unveiled on Wednesday the design of a spacesuit that will be used for NASA's Artemis 3 mission to the moon that is ...

  6. Mechanical counterpressure suit - Wikipedia

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    The aesthetic qualities of a sleek, form-fitting space activity suit also contrast the traditional image of rigid, diving-suit-style spacesuits, lending a futuristic look to costumes. Most anime with futuristic themes include the skintight spacesuit (with the notable exception of Planetes and, to a lesser extent, the Gundam franchise).

  7. List of fictional spacecraft - Wikipedia

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    Nautilus – flagship space yacht of International Transport Spacelines from Event[0] [65] Nauvoo – A Mormon-owned religious space exploration generational ship in The Expanse used to travel a 100-year period to the star Tau Ceti. Nemesis – flagship of the Decepticons (Transformers) [66] Nirvana – a supership from the anime series ...

  8. This wild, futuristic space plan could help save the world ...

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    Solar farms in space could harness the power of the sun, unaffected by bad weather, cloud cover, nighttime or the seasons. This wild, futuristic space plan could help save the world. But some say ...

  9. List of existing technologies predicted in science fiction

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    The names of some modern inventions (atomic bomb, credit card, robot, space station, oral contraceptive and borazon) exactly match their fictional predecessors. A few works correctly predicted the years when some technologies would emerge, such as the first sustained heavier-than-air aircraft flight in 1903 and the first atomic bomb explosion ...