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Simpler Space Suits?

🕑 Added 2024-02-06 20:54:16 +0000 UTC

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Mike

amazing how your brain works.

Zygmunt Dean

More ramblings please! 👍

David M Lincer

I remember an article in Analog from many years ago proposed that we mostly needed a strong fitted bandage to support our skin so that we could have a very flexible suit to do the body part of the suit -- rather than a stiff suit with flexible joints. Then support around the chest to allow / support breathing. The article claimed that testing of one arm / leg had allowed direct exposure to vacuum without the limb blowing up (swelling) I have no detail more than this.

Matt Wietlispach

I wonder how they test the suits here on Earth. They must have a large chamber, or room that can be evacuated of air and intense radiation simulating the sun could be activated. Raytheon makes space suits, but even though I'm part of the same conglomerate of massive companies, I still can't access another division's computer network. I've tried to check out the ejection seat division and the space suit division, but the best the network will allow is links to stupid "fluff media pieces" that anyone can access from the outside.

Jeff Larson

Thanks for the cool footage of the suit assembly. I had not seen this before.

Brian Arbenz

I always had a little underlying nervousness watching the Apollo astronauts on the moon, just knowing how flexible their suits had to be to enable them to do their work, while still having to be strong enough to protect them from the vacuum. Particularly when they'd fall on live TV, I'd cringe -- as did millions.