Astronaut Underpants Saves Chile Miners

Online, October 14, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Tokyo, Japan - Survived for 70 days at a depth of 600 meters is not easy. Space agency and space exploration of Japan's (JAXA) claims if the assistance they provide has saved 33 miners in Chile was so they able to survive in the bowels of the earth for it.

Assistance given to the miners was the equipment and food used by astronauts such as underwear, candy and other food. The assistance given at the end of September to the miners for the purpose of observation.

"We see these events through the news on television. Most of them are trapped too deep so we also can not be sure whether they use the underwear or not. Most importantly, they have been saved," said JAXA officials, as quoted by Space.com, Thursday (10/14/2010).

The underwear, continued the JAXA, is designed specifically to absorb moisture and odor. Underwear is also the same material used by Japanese astronaut Naoko Yamazaki while doing missions into space two weeks at the International Space Station.

Besides Yamazaki, Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata also dressed in these high-tech in 2009 during a mission for 4.5 months in space.

This underwear is able to overcome a bad odor and pass the endurance test in outer space during a mission in space.

Previously a team of doctors and technicians from NASA was in Chile for a week in early September to provide nutritional and psychological advice to the trapped miners.

The miners are trapped in copper and gold mine at the location where they were working collapsed since 5 August. Rescuers dug channel tunnel as deep as 670 meters to save them.

The condition of the mine-filled rock hard, making the rescue process lasted for two months.

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