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Astronauts wear diapers, painfully lose their fingernails when working in spacewalks. Having to bunk in submarine style accommodation for little over week is nothing.



okay i had never heard of the fingernail thing. that sounds awful. I wonder if later designs helped? My immediate thought is: fill those finger spaces with clay like material -- to spread the load across the whole surface of the finger, not just the nail.. but yowtch. glad I never chose that career.




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