Coupled with a spacesuit, X1 could provide additional force when needed during surface exploration, providing even more bang for its small bulk.

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The real fun begins at 90, 000 rubles, when you don a spacesuit and experience a simulated launch, flight and landing in a Soyuz rocket, complete with Russian- language capsule controls.

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Their goal is to create a spacesuit to be worn inside spacecraft during launch and re-entry just in case of emergencies involving the depressurization of a spacecraft.

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The leader is known as Rael, the former Claude Vorilhon, who dresses in a white spacesuit-like uniform and says he spreads his message after encounters with creatures who came to Earth in a UFO.

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The collection "embarks on a voyage to the future, marrying modern, spacesuit-like construction details and a new sophisticated grunge attitude, " Minkoff wrote in her notes.

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But while the excitement is justified, it is probably a tad early to get the spacesuit fitted.

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Now Major Peake, as he waits to be assigned a space mission, is in an ongoing programme of spacesuit training, zero-g flights to "practice weightlessness" and 12-day stints 20m (65ft) under water to research "crew behaviour for long-duration missions".

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Its improvements over the second-generation spacesuit include the ability to withstand greater operating pressure, a carbon fiber waist ring, a retractable helmet and improved gloves and glove disconnects.

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