Re: Moon Dust Threat?



Jeff Findley wrote:
Or you design the airlock hatch so that it covers the suit hatch completely, so that lunar dust never has the opportunity to get into the airlock to begin with.


Yeah, that would work fine.
Access points to the backpack's inside for service and refilling would be on the side facing the interior of the suit.
The downside is that you don't get to give the exterior of the suit a once-over after each EVA as it's still outside the base in vacuum. And judging by the Apollo results, the soil can cause pretty severe wear on it, due to its abrasiveness.

Pat
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