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A personal goldfish bowl where the alternative to fog is breathing your own face.
means A sealed, transparent headpiece worn with a spacesuit that supplies breathable air and protects an astronaut's head from the vacuum, radiation, and extremes of space.
from A plain marriage of two old words. "Space," meaning the cosmos beyond Earth, traces back through Old French to Latin "spatium," a stretch or expanse. "Helmet" is a diminutive of "helm," an old Germanic word for protective head-covering, related to words meaning "to cover" or "conceal." The compound "space helmet" naturally arrived with the rise of spaceflight in the 20th century, when fiction and then engineering needed a name for the bubble that keeps a head alive where there's nothing to breathe.
- gold visor
- Coated in real gold to block blinding radiation
- itch problem
- A Velcro nose-block helps astronauts scratch and pop ears
- water scare
- A 2013 spacewalk nearly drowned a man inside one
- snoopy cap
- Worn underneath, holding mics and earphones
- no whistling
- Sound needs air, so screaming outside is silent
apollo 11 helmet — buzz aldrin's gold-visored helmet worn on the moon in 1969
vomit comet helmet — nasa's modified kc-135 aircraft helmet used for zero-gravity training since 1961
spacex dragon helmet — sleek white helmet worn by astronauts during spacex crew dragon missions since 2020