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a personal spacecraft you wear, keeping you alive in the universe's most lethal nothing.
means a pressurized, protective garment that supplies oxygen, regulates temperature, and shields the wearer so a human body can survive the vacuum and extremes of space.
from A transparent compound of "space" and "suit." "Space" reaches back through Old French "espace" to Latin "spatium," meaning an expanse or interval; "suit" comes from the same Latin "sequi" (to follow) that gave us "sequence" — a suit being originally a set of garments that "follow" or match together. The word arose in the early-to-mid 20th century, first in the speculative pages of science fiction before engineers made the thing real, so the name actually predated the genuine article it now describes.
- price tag
- NASA suits cost around 150 million dollars each
- pressure trick
- too soft and your blood would literally boil
- layers deep
- up to 14 layers between you and death
- old gear
- current US suits date back to the 1980s
- built-in straw
- includes a water bag for sips during spacewalks
apollo 11 suit — neil armstrong wore this extravehicular mobility unit on the moon in 1969
spacex starman suit — tesla roadster dummy wore this red and white suit launched in 2018
russian orlan suit — cosmonauts have used this model continuously since 1977 for spacewalks