When Space Gloves Cost Astronauts Their Nails
Microgravity turns a mundane body part into a quiet liability. Around the rigid shell of a pressurized glove, fingernails can separate and fall off without a single dramatic accident, only the slow grind of work outside a spacecraft. The glove’s internal pressure opposes the vacuum outside, yet that same protective force pins fingertips against seams and stiff joints for hours during extravehicula...More
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