A great deal of effort goes into making spacesuits. These have to be extremely airtight and so today’s invention is intended to make them more reliable and simpler to don.
Imagine an inner layer of a space suit that is made in sections which join together using seams which are like those at the neck of a ziplock bag.
These sections could be made to fit an individual astronaut’s body perfectly.
After the sections are fitted to the person and the ziplock seams engaged, a 3D printing, handheld ‘sewing machine’ would be run along each seam, sealing it perfectly (These devices are already used in space).
This would do away with the need to use any high specification zips.
After use, the material could be simply cut off, fed back into a shredder, melted and reused.
