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Historical Look at Pressure Suits

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on 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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  1. Some other suites (from past and future) by cpuffer_hammer · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Also check out http://www.globaleffects.com/B_02_frameset.html for some more picks of real and prop suites.

  2. Nevermind the space suits... by stvangel · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's a wonderful site on anything involving historical space exploration and rocketry. I've been going there for years. I have a lot of these wonderful historical sites. These are quasi-related:

    http://www.astronautix.com/
    The home page of this site.

    http://www.nuclearweaponarchive.com/
    A site on the history of nuclear weaponry.

    http://www.fas.org/
    The Federation of American Scientists. Look on the left menu for links to weapons, rockets, missiles...

    http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanet s/
    The Nine Planets - A site about our solar system.

    Every time I find a good historical site, I add it to my collection. Wikipedia.org just goes without saying.