Thanks Thought so. What is a MCP?
We've already "solved" the spacesuit issues but no one is making them:"Mechanical Counter-Pressure Space Suit"http://quest.nasa.gov/projects/spacewardbound/australia2009/docs/Waldie%202005%20MCP-Paper.pdfhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_activity_suithttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15828639The problem is that while it's been shown the MCP suits work and should work just as well if not better than "standard" balloon suits there is a lot of technical and institutional inertia for continuing to use the "standard" suits. So the majority of "work" has been directed to finding ways to "attach" MCP gloves to gas-balloon suits. Needless to say the "success" of doing so hasn't been great.For deep-space and long-term orbital operations such as construction or other labor intensive work the flex-craft looks like a good start on what's needed. It's extremly difficult to see anyone using a "back-up" standard suit inside one of these though...Randy