Historical Look at Pressure Suits

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Sunday January 8, 2006 @01:02AM from the garbage-can-and-a-plastic-bag dept.

Ant writes to tell us about an interesting site that takes a look at the history of space suits. There is a pretty comprehensive look at space suit design from 1935 to present across all nations. An interesting tour of our progress towards exploration of the unknown. From the article: "The first full pressure suit was made by an English firm for the American balloonist Mark Ridge. The suit was taken to 17 torr (25.6 km) pressurized to 11.1 km. The English broke two world records with the Mark Ridge Suit in 1935."

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Re:Uhhhh...don't you mean... by Tango42 · 2006-01-08 02:15 · Score: 4, Insightful

I think it means they took it to 25.6km where the pressure is 17 torr and the suit was preasurised to the equivilent of 11.1km. It's badly worded, but that's the only interrpretation I can think of that makes sense.