Alvin Remmers posted on Goggle+ a link to moonandback about NASA's Z-1 Spacesuit and I thought I would check out the article. You may well find it informative if we are ever to venture out on a planetesimal in the vacuum of space.
Sorry, I really would hope the spacesuits would be used to egress from some inflatable shelter on the Moon but then we have been there and almost did that.
I don't think we have answered the question of how to deal with solar flares while spending years in a spaceship to some asteroid. Nevertheless, lets see what we have here since we seem to be on track to build a big rocket that will need to have some place to go.
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Z-1 spacesuit information at Wikipedia.
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ILC Dover, LP (also known as ILC) is an American special engineering development and manufacturing company based in Frederica, Delaware. ILC specializes in the use of high-performance flexible materials, serving the aerospace, personal protection, and pharmaceutical industries.
Best known for making space suits for NASA, ILC outfitted every United States astronaut in the Apollo program, including the twelve that walked on the moon. ILC also designed and manufactured the Space Suit Assembly portion of the Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU), worn by astronauts during performance of extra-vehicular activity (EVA) on Space Shuttle missions and on the International Space Station.
Other ILC products include the airbag landing devices for Mars Pathfinder and Mars Exploration Rover (MER) missions; lighter-than-air vehicles, including airships, aerostats, and zeppelins; chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) masks and hood systems; and flexible powder-containment solutions for the pharmaceutical industry.
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So let us look spacey and hope that it helps us go to the Moon, Mars, and Beyond.
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NASA's Z-1 Spacesuit was Named by TIME Magazine as one of the Best Inventions of 2012By TIME's staff: The biggest thing NASA’s first space suits had to do—aside from keep astronauts alive—was to look spacey. So ordinary test-pilot suits were simply redesigned in a nifty silver. Things are harder now as the U.S. prepares for new deep-space missions. The Z-1 space suit provides go-anywhere garb featuring more-flexible joints, radiation protection for long stays in space and a hatch on the back that allows the suit to dock with a portal on a spacecraft or rover so an astronaut can crawl through without letting dust in or air out.snip
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Many different pressure suits shown in this 530 page PDF book.
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DRESSING FOR ALTITUDE
U.S. Aviation Pressure Suits—Wiley Post to Space Shuttle
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Since its earliest days, flight has been about pushing the limits of technology and, in many cases, pushing the limits of human endurance. The human body can be the limiting factor in the design of aircraft and spacecraft. Humans cannot survive unaided at high altitudes. There have been a number of books written on the subject of spacesuits, but the literature on the high-altitude pressure suits is lacking. This volume provides a high-level summary of the technological development and operational use of partial- and full-pressure suits, from the earliest models to the current highaltitude, full-pressure suits used for modern aviation, as well as those that were used for launch and entry on the Space Shuttle. The goal of this work is to provide a resource on the technology for suits designed to keep humans alive at the edge of space. Hopefully, future generations will learn
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Thanks for looking with me.
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