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Elon Musk Posts First Photo of SpaceX's New Spacesuit (arstechnica.com)
Early Wednesday morning, SpaceX founder Elon Musk posted a photo of the spacesuit that will be used by astronauts flying aboard the company's Dragon spacecraft, perhaps as early as next year. Ars Technica reports: In his Instagram post, Musk added that this suit was not a mock-up but rather a fully functional unit. "Already tested to double vacuum pressure," he wrote. "Was incredibly hard to balance aesthetics and function. Easy to do either separately." (Double vacuum pressure simply means the suit was probably inflated to twice the pressure of sea level and then put into a vacuum chamber.) Musk gave no other technical information about the suit. Most strikingly, it is white, in contrast to the very blue spacesuits unveiled by Boeing in January. These are not, strictly speaking, "space suits." Rather, they are more properly flight suits designed to be worn during the ride to space and again on the ride back down to Earth. They have a limited time in which they can operate in a full vacuum and are not intended for spacewalks.
That's just the currently selected layout for the built-in keyboard.
it's a flight suit.
not a space suit.
as far as hoses, I suppose it's hidden somewhere. since it's not for space walks and is just for sitting down basically while in flight to protect you if pressure drops or something.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Sure. the question is : would it be hygienic if you did?
Can you choose Klingon? tlho'!
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Actually, when your goal is to make space travel mass market, making things aesthetically appealing is a key aspect. Musk's goal is not and never has been $25m trips to space for the select few; he wants to make space travel a common occurrence.
As for "solid spacesuit", I assume you mean like the NASA AX series, which are built more like atmospheric diving suits than traditional space suits. And the answer is the same reason why NASA doesn't use them - while mobility in them is superb, they're significantly heavier. About the only place in the solar system where it makes sense to use them at present (in combination with insulation and either a heat-absorbing material (akin to Venera) or a heat pump with cooling channels, and a bellows balloon) is the surface of Venus. A more popular research topic is hybrid pressure / hard suits, where you have certain parts rigid (such as the torso) and others inflated.
Ever since, I've been suspicious of Jesus and very careful around chlorine.
Outside is vacuum, inside is double pressure.
Ever since, I've been suspicious of Jesus and very careful around chlorine.
Hyperloop Transportation Technologies has nothing to do with Musk. More to the point, the only thing Musk initially stated about Hyperloop that he's now starting to go back on was that he wasn't going to get personally involved with it.
Ever since, I've been suspicious of Jesus and very careful around chlorine.
The rocket I saw land in Florida sure looked real , tell me more internet keyboard flat earther!
It's not that simple. Materials can behave differently in a vacuum than they do at atmospheric pressure.
Ever since, I've been suspicious of Jesus and very careful around chlorine.
I think this flight suit was tested in Space 1999...
it's a flight suit.
not a space suit.
as far as hoses, I suppose it's hidden somewhere. since it's not for space walks and is just for sitting down basically while in flight to protect you if pressure drops or something.
But it does not have huge padded shoulders and epaulets! Cryst, a million sci-fi moves and television shows tell us that it has to have huge padded shoulders and epaulets!
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
I'm curious about the part "hard to balance aesthetics and function". How will it look like? Space Marine Power Armor? Exo-skeleton? Really curious to see.
So maybe click the link in the summary to go see pictures of it??
I browse on +1 so AC's need not respond, I won't see it.
Elon Musk or Daft Punk?
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why should one care about aesthetics
Because manned space flight is mostly about science PR. One man or woman walks out in a kickass space suit and 1,000 school kids run off to become engineers and software developers. It's the same reason the Blue Angels exist. Every time a Blue Angel flies over a city 100 kids enlist in the Navy.
It's kind of also like how for every person who is a software developer a AAA game engine, there are a 1,000 programmers who are working on eCommerce shopping-cart code that were inspired to learn programming in order to "make games".