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user-inactivated  ·  3876 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Tense read about a dangerous spacewalk wardrobe malfunction | Air and Space Magazine

Never anything that invasive but every time I get my teeth cleaned I feel like the dentist is waiting way too long to let me spit and I get mouth-claustrophobic and also pissed off.

    I love that after this happened, NASA goes all engineer on the problem and finds little things to do to prevent it. Almost drowning? Now your mask has a snorkel!

Yeah that is a really silly way to fix the problem, and to fix problems in general. Honestly if they're that reactive (even on the small-scale stuff!) it's not terribly surprising we've lost astronauts in the past.