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- 6 months
There’s a fuzzy line between clothes and vehicles that spacesuits sit right in the middle of
There’s a fuzzy line between clothes and vehicles that sit right in the middle of
6 months“I’m sorry, I can’t hear you, son! I’m wearing a jacuzzi suit.”
- 6 months
I think Adam Savage has actually gone into this a bit on his YouTube channel, dude really likes space suits and have a lot of videos about them so I’m not even going to try to find which specific video it was
- 6 months
I would say, a space suit (Being a suit to protect a human agianst space), is clothing like, equipment, such the same as a suit of armour or CRBN suit. Where an EVA suit (Being a vehicle allowing mobilty in low/no gravity areas), is a vehicle like, mech suit, such the same as an exoskeleton.
Yes we generally only use EVA suits in space
- 6 months
Do the Apollo era EVA suits count as vehicles, or do you have to have an MMU like what Bruce McCandless wore?
- 6 months
The apollo era space suits (A7-L) where generally produced in an “EVA” configuration. It had protective, cooling and comfort layers but no mobilty enhancement. I would personally think they count more as a protective suit than a veichle, as compared to the MMU with mobility enhancing features.
I personally consider the A7-L, not a proper EVA unit, it does not allow activity in space outside of a veichle or terrestrial body. An MMU veichle can be used to perform a wide range of activities outside the ISS wereas an IL-7, could not.
ofc it’s all personal speculation and arguments can be made all around, thats just my take on it.
- 6 months
Somewhere in the climax of Revelation Space (book by Alistair Reynolds), he describes the “suit” taking the character from the orbiting ship to the surface as “more of a spaceship with room for precisely one occupant”
