They sit in rows, taking hot glass into their gloved hands and spinning it around a cylinder.
One small gloved hand lay on her lap outside the shawl.
On most missions one or two astronauts would walk in space, carrying clumpy instruments in huge gloved hands, to tinker with the craft. Their logs were eloquently mundane.
The others presumably felt that the risk of tearing or smudges from oily, humid hands (albeit gloved) was an even greater worry than exposing a single precious page to continuous light.
Of himself, he wrote that, in his imagination: "I appear as an idol, a wizard, bird-headed, emerald-gloved, dressed in tights made of bright-blue scales."
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