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Originally Posted by glen4cindy
Bill Kaysings, in one of the videos "proved" that the astronauts would not be able to grasp things with their fingers in the vacuum of space, yet, much of the construction of the ISS has been done via space walks, duh! in a vacuum.
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Al Schmitt addressed this one indirectly in his article in the latest number of SciAm. He pointed out that the gloves were pressurized to 3.7 psi. Billy's test was at full atmospheric. AND he used an ordinary rubber glove, not a spacesuit gauntlet.
The math to show the difference in total pressure on the gloves is beyond me, but my guess is 3.7 psi would need significantly less force to overcome. Even so, Schmitt stated it was tiring and asks that better gauntlets be designed.