Re: Moon Dust Threat?



surfduke wrote:
I think that the suits could be stored in a decompressed area, with
entry from a rear, (hanging/connected to a pressurized room). This
would keep all the eva hardware outside of a shirtsleeve environment
in the lab/base. The dust would only be a exterior build-up problem
then. This could be handled with a quick scheduled brush off.

That might be the ideal solution to the problem...and could be based on current technology also, as the Russian suits use rear entry hatches already.
There'd still be some dust on the back part of the suit with the hatch on it that ended up inside base after the suit had "docked" with the airlock, but that should be fixable by cleaning it one way or another (compressed air and filter, a vacuum system, or hosing it down with water) and the advantage would be that that section would have the have the life support systems on it, like the Russian suits do, making for easy servicing and replacement of its consumables.

Pat
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