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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. Uhhhh...don't you mean... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    "The suit was taken to 17 torr (25.6 km) pressurized to 11.1 km."

    ...The suit was taken to 11.1 km (25.6 km) pressurized to 17 torr.

    Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot this is slashdot, noone gives a shit about mundane details...

  2. how about.... by toQDuj · · Score: -1, Troll

    Actually having a scientist check article submissions for /.?
    One who can distinguish between a pressure unit and a lenth unit?

    B.

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