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- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Path: sparky!uunet!europa.asd.contel.com!emory!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary
- From: gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman)
- Subject: Re: Space suit research???
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.044826.1013@ke4zv.uucp>
- Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman)
- Organization: Gannett Technologies Group
- References: <1992Nov10.232320.4521@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 04:48:26 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov10.232320.4521@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> stanczyk@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (STANCZYK MICHAEL B) writes:
- >With all the talk about US space suits being at 5 psi and pure O2 I was
- >wondering what the current state of research is in space suits using
- >1 atm and normal air?
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- Imagine a starfish. Constant volume joints aren't constant volume. At
- 1 atm, you can't move unless you're Arnold S. The suit fabric becomes
- so stiff when inflated to 14 PSI that you can't get any feeling through
- it, gloves don't work. 1 atm suit designs are hard suits with remote
- manipulators, one man space ships, not suits at all.
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- Gary
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