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A Failed Prototype: The Hamster Ball Spacesuit

Casey Chan January 23, 2011 7:00 AM

Space suits are insanely cool. Except this one. This prototype hamster ball suit was designed by engineers at John Hopkins and actually presented to NASA in 1964. The engineers claimed astronauts would be more mobile with this thing on.

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