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... have hoses and gauges on them. In our one-gravity environment here on Earth, the spacesuit, including the life support system, weighs about 310 pounds. The suit itself weighs about 110 ... water at the neutral buoyancy lab (NBL) practicing their spacewalks and getting used to the spacesuits. ---- Answer provided by Lonnie Moffitt Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the ...

I would imagine that lightweight spacesuits will be something that will not be seen for a long time. That is not ... space is such a hostile environment for humans and will continue to be that way, spacesuits are our armor against that environment. We must take our environment with us in space ... provide a way to keep our body temperature normal. To do this, it takes a spacesuit and that means it takes room to do that. Since we are weightless, the weight ...

NASA astronauts think that their spacesuits are very fashionable However, the suits are not designed to be fashionable but to be ...

... Apollo Lunar Surface Drill; flown on Apollo 15, 16, and 17 - ALSD Apollo lunar surface drill - ALSE Apollo Lunar Sounder Experiment - ALSEP Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package - ALSRC Apollo ... boxes - SRP Self-Recording Penetrometer - SSALT Solid-State Altimeter - SSC SpaceSuit Communicator - SSC space suit communications - SSC Stennis Space Center (Slidell, MS) ...

... that have been flown, the design has been for people to breathe outside of a spacesuit as long as they are within the spacecraft, just like the Shuttle astronauts do today ... emergency abort. Outside the spacecraft and when exposed to space, you will always need a spacesuit. ---- Answer provided by Lonnie Moffitt & Russell Romanella Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted ...

... an extra vehicular activity (EVA). Space is a very unfriendly environment to humans, and a spacesuit is needed to protect you from extremes of heat and cold as well as to ...

Fortunately, you only wear your spacesuit for special tasks outside your spacecraft. When you are inside the spacesuit, you will not be able to eat or drink. You will also not be ...

If you need to venture outside your spacecraft, you will need to have a spacesuit that is specially fitted for you. Before you go into space, there will be people that will be ready to make a specially designed spacesuit, just for you. ---- Answer provided by Lonnie Moffitt Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer ...

There are a number of accessories on the spacesuit. There are lights attached to the helmet so that the astronauts can see in the ... and not float away from the orbiter. Astronauts have a tool caddy attached to the spacesuit to carry the many tools needed for the assembly of the International Space Station (ISS ...

... the Moon or on Mars, we will always have to wear some version of our spacesuit. It may look different than it now looks but it will still have to provide ... , in space we are in weightlessness—our body weight is zero pounds, and the spacesuit also weighs zero pounds. So the weight of the suit is not a factor. It ...

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