NASA plans to test heated gloves on next cold-temperature EVA

NASA astronauts will wear tiny battery-operated heaters in the fingertips of their gloves this summer when they carry out the next test of their ability to work in the cold temperatures Space Station construction crews are likely to encounter. Controllers on the just-completed STS-63 mission cut...

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