On: Live: ISS Spacewalk

[purplelobster]

Looks about as much fun as building Lego with mittens. Must be frustrating as hell.

[jamesmontalvo3 → purplelobster]

The Russian Orlan suit [1] is pressurized higher than the US EMU [2], and gloves are not as dexterous. I don't know a lot about Russian spacewalks, but US gloves have caused fingernail delamination in many people, including myself (I'm not an astronaut, but I work with this hardware a lot).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlan_space_suits

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extravehicular_Mobility_Unit

[bjz_ → purplelobster]

One of the less-publicised facts is that working in the pressurized gloves sometimes causes their fingernails to fall off.

[ilink → purplelobster]

I was thinking it looks like assembling IKEA furniture in space.