Re: SPACE PRIZE
From: Joann Evans (bondage_at_frontiernet.net)
Date: 07/22/04
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Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 03:48:57 GMT
Renee Keller wrote:
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> Why we are talking about Space Prizes. How about one for a new kind of
> environment suit. It must be Light weight, able to protect the occuant from
> extreme heat, cold, radiation, a built in bio monitoring system and a
> computer interface that will automatically network with other suits and
> computer systems in the vacinity. I am thinking along the lines of the
> suits used in the movie "Red Planet" with Val Kilmer.
When there's more of a demand for various kinds of spacesuits
(meaning, more than just NASA and maybe the DoD), there will be more
incentive to develop such things.
However, protection from ionizing radiation is a mass issue. No
spacesuit can have a foot of lead or the equivalent, surrounding it.
What we need are some international standards for communication
frequencies and modulation formats for space suits (and spaceships), and
life support hookups. (In the novel 'Marooned' [which had more detail on
this than the movie], the Soviets had some uncertainty as to wehter the
emergency oxygen bottles their man was bringing to the stranded US
astronauts, would mechanically connect to the Apollo-type suits.)
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