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Modern spacesuits have a compatability problem. Astronauts’ lives depend on fixing it

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par Berna Akcali Gur, Lecturer in Outer Space Law, Queen Mary University of London

Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, the Nasa astronauts who were stuck on the International Space Station (ISS) for nine months, have finally returned to Earth.

Spacesuits were an important consideration that Nasa had to factor into its plans to bring the astronauts back home. Wilmore and Williams had travelled to the ISS in Boeing’s experimental Starliner spacecraft, so they arrived wearing Boeing “Blue” spacesuits.

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