Questions tagged [spacesuits]
Questions regarding the spacesuits that astronauts wear whilst in space
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I read that the Artemis missions are planning on having the astronauts be able to survive in their IVA suits for at least 6 days [duplicate]
https://www.space.com/39710-orion-spacesuit-waste-disposal-system.html There are references to something similar in this article from Apollo. Could that have been done back then? If not was this done ...
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Do spacesuits contain any metals or other materials that would block a Bluetooth or Bluetooth style signal?
I know there is a difference between EVA and IVA suits so one might when the other doesn't.
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Are any IVA (launch and entry) suits lighter and/or cooler inside than others?
I'm not expecting any of them are actually comfortable but are any less claustrophobic than others? According to this source https://redmondmag.com/articles/2020/11/20/overcoming-spacesuit-anxiety....
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How do astronauts get out of their launch and entry suits in orbit?
I know to suit up in the first place there are technicians and it's quite a process. How do they doff their launch and entry suits on their own? Is it somehow any less of a process to get out at lest ...
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Is it possible to construct a way to breathe in space without a helmet?
Why you can't just go to space in a dive suit with some additional cooling. In fact what if you had the equivalent of a snorkel for breathing and a ski-mask type visor, well insulated to avoid ...
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What mitigations to human body vacuum exposure, exist?
Is it possible to mitigate the damage that vacuum can do to the human body with medication or some sort of hypo- or hyperbaric treatment? To what extent can the body acclimatize?
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Why is SpaceX's whole space suit pressurized and not only the head/neck/shoulders?
Vacuums are much harsher than I thought.]1 Having watched the first first SpaceX space suit test aka. "spacewalk", I finally did more than just reminiscing about Heinlein's "Have space ...
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Exploration EVA by donning a dust protection suit over a pressure suit
It seems to me that a pressure suit for the Moon or Mars would be a lot easier to design if astronauts were simply required to don a dust protection suit over the pressure suit before going outside. ...
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Overcoming the Moon Dust Problem: Are We There Yet with Spacesuit Technology?
I've been mulling over a thought for quite some time now. As we gear up for a return to the Moon and possibly Mars, I can't help but think about one of the major issues from the Apollo missions: the ...
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What improvements will Axiom Space's Artemis spacesuit bring to current EMUs?
We know a design focus of the Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AxEMU) is to offer more flexibility for size fitting and movement than current EMUs, both for spacewalks and moonwalks. Based on what ...
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Could Soyuz spacecraft have saved the Columbia crew?
For the sake of the question, let's assume the STS-107 crew realizes in orbit that the heat shield is too damaged for reentry, but they realize it too late for shuttle Atlantis to rescue them in time. ...
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Could a deadly fire start within a spacesuit?
At the end of S02E08 of the TV show "For All Mankind", a cosmonaut is shot on the moon and a fire erupts within his suit. My understanding is that the pressure of pure oxygen within a ...
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Are suits in the NBL pressurized differently than during flight?
I don't know why I've been in a spacesuit mood lately, but the following crossed my mind recently: the flexible portions of NASA'S EMU suits are inflated by the interior pressure the suits in the ...
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Have external food/drink for EVA suits been considered?
This chat between ex-Mythbuster Adam Savage and ex-astronaut Mike Massimino mentions the danger of getting water inside your helmet in freefall. I idly mused about a (probably stupid) idea: that if ...
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Why does NASA suit color coding not follow conventional navigation color coding?
Pictures of NASA spacesuits like the ones below of Neil Armstrong’s Apollo suit (from the Smithsonian) and Gemini suit usually show the right wrist connection red and the left blue. Color coding for ...
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