This fabric looks like the chain-mail armor worn by medieval knights, but can embed much more recent sensors to create some smart textiles.

Like some kind of futuristic chainmail, it not only looks ridiculously awesome, it’s also a potential solution for protecting space-faring astronauts from debris like meteorites.

Raul Polit Casillas at NASA's JPL created a 3D-printed "space fabric" that's flexible, easy to create, and a thermal regulator.

To the naked eye, the space fabric looks like a cross between chain mail and metallic tiles, like something you might see in one of the more "with it" haute couture dresses of the Swinging Sixties.

On Friday, that looks set to change. Charlie, 15, is the same age his father was when Tiger won the first of this three straight U.S. Junior Amateur championships in 1991.