So, what's fashion going to look like on the Moon in 2024? NASA's ready to show you the goods NASA has unveiled two new space suit designs for future astronauts on its Artemis program, a mission to send “the first woman and the next man" to the surface of the Moon by 2024. The main suit worn by the explorers living on a lunar shuttle will be the Orion Crew Survival System. Built with safety in mind, it’s made out of a …
I've checked my fashion rehash calendar, and flairs should be back in by then, so he wont need that pocket.
Strange, all the photos of spacesuits from Space 1999 featuring flairs seem to have disappeared; I distinctly remember them appearing in at least one season.
White flight suit already tested.
Anyone ready to place bets on how people land on the moon first:
A) Shelby's SLS+Orion+LOP-G+Transfer+Descent+Ascent
B) Musk's Superheavy+Starship + Lots of tanker trips.
Well, if you are going to be like that Dmitry Rogozin recommends a trampoline. SpinLaunch say they got $40M of funding but I have more confidence in this.
Space 1999 is on telly again! On one of those channels like CBS Drama or something, in the evenings after whatever flavour of Star Trek they're currently showing. So we're probably talking channel 80ish on Freeview. I watched the first ever episode last week, as I happened to spot it when channel hopping.
Sadly I don't think I'll be continuing to watch the series. But it was a nice little bit of nostalgia. And not as disappointing as Blakes 7, when I got hold of the DVDs a few years ago.
"Space 1999 is on telly again! On one of those channels like CBS Drama or something, in the evenings after whatever flavour of Star Trek they're currently showing"
It's on the Horror Channel (Freeview Ch. 70.) at 20:00, after ST: Voyager...
Why the Horror Channel? I'll leave that up to you...
Why the Horror Channel
Brian Blessed?
Only kidding.
More likely it's the violations of the laws of physics that are pretty horrific. But to be fair the Eagles take off from their pads in complete silence if I remember correctly. A pity then that anyone observing from a nearby room probably would hear something at least at first.
I loved that show as a child but it left me conflicted. I mean the whole premise is pretty ridiculous and then to have the moon drifting from star to star and worse, allowing time to launch Eagles in order to investigate passing planets was outrageous. And then in the last (I think) series they had that alien woman who was a shape shifter and at one point she becomes a bee in order to fly through the air vents. It's difficult enough explaining how a natural bee gets enough lift so a bee with the mass of a well developed adult humanoid is a serious stretch :)
NASA used to tack x onto the end of any preliminary design, X for experimental
The they built an experimental Crew Rescue Vehicle and decided that they had spelled a girly-part word which might cause astronauts (or at least congressmen) in southern states to faint and have the vapours.
So they now put the x in the front
"The they built an experimental Crew Rescue Vehicle and decided that they had spelled a girly-part word which might cause astronauts (or at least congressmen) in southern states to faint and have the vapours."
CRVX? Maybe I'm just not up with euphemisms from the youth of today, but I can't help feeling I'm missing something.
In any case, the prototype for the Crew Return Vehicle was the X-38, which used standard nomenclature from before NASA even existed, and is not recorded as having had any association with girly bits at all.
>CRVX? Maybe I'm just not up with euphemisms from the youth of today, but I can't help feeling I'm missing something.
sorry it was Crew 'Return' Vehicle (I suppose Rescue sounds bad) and yes somebody at Nasa did decide that CRV-X sounded like cervix and that was close enough to a lady's front parts that it was obscene and so the project was renamed to X-CRV before being scrapped as a totally failure.
IIRC it was reported and widely mocked on el'reg at the time
I doubt you'll ever (or at least with the next few years' tech) solve the gloves issue, when working in a spacesuit. They've got to insulate against extreme cold, and heat, and provide some radiation shielding as well as keeping the air in. That makes them thick. So if we develop some wonder-material that can do that and still be as thin as silk, then problem solved.
Until then, I'd have thought that the second best solution is some sort of robot hand with lots of sensors and operated from a feedback glove - which does your delicate work. And can be operated at various flavours of remoteness - so you only need astronauts at the site, in space, on rare occasions.
The helmet keeps out noise. What noise would that be in the airless environment the suit is designed to operate in?
Or is it so that the wearer can concentrate on running for the airlock without being distracted by the blood-curdling screams of the other crew members being hunted down one-by-one by the alien lifeform that they really, really, shouldn't have brought aboard?
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Not only made by playtex, but by women who were basically just pulled from the production line. However each spacesuit was made bespoke and the playtex women were the best seamstresses around. The amount of work and quality control that went into each one was outstanding, especially if you consider one failure in any of the seams would of resulted in death.,
Their story is just one of those hidden narratives about the space race which tends to concentrate on the big engineering and misses out the little details and subplots which were just as important and performed by basically ordinary people who found themselves involved in the great quest.
It also raises an interesting point whether the new suits are as bespoke and hard to make as the old ones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QIEMobU6Eg
I remember watching an hour long Discovery show all about the making of the suits about a decade ago. And that's what made me post on the subject.
I remember some interesting tidbits, such as the fact that it was necessary to have a very accurately controlled sewing pitch. Too few stitches would allow the material between the stiches to separate, but too many would weaken the seam of the material risking explosive failure.
It was nice to watch a story of when the 'best' supplier (no matter who they were) was used to supply the goods, rather than the cheapest, or even the cheapest within a particular US state!
That must take some practice,....I know for me it would. I surf, and many of my surf buddies are blessed with the ability to relax and moisten their wetsuit from the inside if needs be during a long surf session, but I just can't. I'd need to be cross eyed before I could wet myself, and I think the productivity of the space walk would have sufferd long before then.
"to wear when they're inside lunar spacecrafts"
So why are these orange suits pressurised inside a spacecraft? Are they planning to need pressure suits during normal operation or just for emergencies?
I can see the helmets and gloves seem to be attached with some kind or sealed connections but not those boots. Just looks like the way my ski trouser legs hang over the tops of my boots. Am I missing something?
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