Re: Space Tourist Spacesuits

From: Fred J. McCall (fmccall_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 02/19/05 

Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 23:37:21 GMT

henry@spsystems.net (Henry Spencer) wrote:

:In article <42177955.CE514927@frontiernet.net>,
:Joann Evans <greenie31@juno[spambait].com> wrote:
:> IOW, vacuum is vacuum wherever you are, and once you have a suit
:>that's flexible and comfortable in LEO, you're good for most of the rest
:>of the Universe...
:
:With one reservation: some adjustments may be necessary in very different
:thermal environments. LEO is a pretty friendly place, thermally, with a
:nice warm Earth filling half the sky. For colder conditions you'll want
:heated gloves and other detail changes; for hotter conditions you'll need
:reflective outer layers and better cooling.

This is why I like the simpler (in principle - actual execution is
MUCH harder) idea of a simple elastic suit and face mask as the
'pressure suit' with various over-garments to account for the various
environmental conditions.

Sort of a "this basic garment does for you what your skin does and
keeps all the red bits inside where they belong" with the remainder
being equivalent to, well, clothes.

As I said, much harder to actually execute in the real world, though. 

-- 
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable 
 man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, 
 all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
                                      --George Bernard Shaw

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