Japan made astronaut costumes

Japan will build a high-tech astronaut suit for moon-based walks in 2018, Kyodo News quoted officials from Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency on December 21. .

With these high-tech suits, Japan hopes to participate in an American project, which is expected to bring astronauts to the Moon by 2018 and will also become the third country in the world. Use your advanced technology to produce compact space suits for astronauts.

The agency aims to make an astronaut weighing about 20 kg, which is much lighter than the US-designed 120-kilogram suit, and enhances life-sustaining capabilities for astronauts to do. work with this suit within 1 week.

This suit is intended to be tested during the 2008 expedition and then, starting after 2014, will be put to service in America's national aerospace program to bring astronauts to the moon. .

Currently, the United States and Russia have the technology to produce space suits for work outside the spacecraft. These suits are designed to protect people from drastic changes in temperature, cosmic radiation and meteor stones.

"We believe that Japan is very strong in technologies related to making space suits. We also hope this work will help expand Japan's space operations, '' said Japanese Space Exploration Agency officials.

A national budget draft released this week shows Japan will pay much attention to space exploration although the overall budget next year may decline. Funding for this space program is expected to increase 2%, to 180.1 billion yen (about 1.54 billion USD), the highest level in 7 years of Japan.

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