Type of protective suit worn in low pressure environments
For diving suits that protect against excessively high pressure, see Atmospheric diving suit. For the positive pressure suit used in biocontainment, see Positive pressure personnel suit.
A U-2 pilot suit
A pressure suit is a protective suit worn by high-altitude pilots who may fly at altitudes where the air pressure is too low for an unprotected person to survive, even when breathing pure oxygen at positive pressure. Such suits may be either full-pressure (e.g., a space suit) or partial-pressure (as used by aircrew). Partial-pressure suits work by providing mechanical counter-pressure to assist breathing at altitude.
A pressuresuit is a protective suit worn by high-altitude pilots who may fly at altitudes where the air pressure is too low for an unprotected person...
case of loss of cabin pressure, and are necessary for extravehicular activity (EVA), work done outside spacecraft. Space suits have been worn for such...
The Advanced Crew Escape Suit (ACES), or "pumpkin suit", is a full pressuresuit that Space Shuttle crews began wearing after STS-65, for the ascent and...
atmospheric diving suit (ADS) is a small one-person articulated submersible which resembles a suit of armour, with elaborate pressure joints to allow articulation...
The Sokol space suit (Russian: Cокол, lit. 'Falcon') is a series of soft-body pressuresuits designed and built by NPP Zvezda. It was first introduced...
and landing. It was designed by NASA based on the X-15 high-altitude pressuresuit.[citation needed] All Gemini spacesuits were developed and manufactured...
pressure diving suits, armored suits that keep the diver at atmospheric pressure at any depth within the operating range of the suit. Hot water suits...
(MCP) suit, partial pressuresuit, direct compression suit, or space activity suit (SAS) is an experimental spacesuit which applies stable pressure against...
The Launch Entry Suit (LES), known as the "pumpkin suit", is a partial-pressuresuit that was worn by all Space Shuttle crews for the ascent and entry...
work in high-altitude flying, Post helped develop one of the first pressuresuits and discovered the jet stream. On August 15, 1935, Post and American...
lower pressure than Earth's atmosphere at sea level. Other issues include the Martian dust, low temperatures, and radiation. One design for a Mars suit from...
circulatory system)—will boil away if the subject does not wear a full-body pressuresuit, and no amount of breathable oxygen delivered by any means will sustain...
The Mercury space suit (or Navy Mark IV) was a full-body, high-altitude pressuresuit originally developed by the B.F. Goodrich Company and the U.S. Navy...
The Constellation Space Suit was a planned full pressuresuit system that would have served as an intra-vehicular activity (IVA) and extra-vehicular activity...
records. Post needed a pressurized suit, and Colley designed him one using his wife's sewing machine. The pressuresuit had three layers: the innermost one...
aerospace and industrial protective equipment, including pressure-space suit systems, anti-G suits, headsets, and several medical/safety products. DCC has...
The VKK flight suit (Russian: высотный компенсирующий костюм), is a series of Soviet high-altitude partial pressuresuit, which loosely translates 'altitude...
supplied through attached hoses. This air is usually pumped into the suit at positive pressure with respect to the surroundings as an additional protective measure...
pressure cannot support human life, and a pressuresuit is necessary. A rapid depressurisation to the low pressures of high altitudes can trigger altitude...
A flight suit is a full-body garment, worn while flying aircraft such as military airplanes, gliders and helicopters. These suits are generally made to...
Operating pressure: 4.3 psi (29.6 kPa) EVA suit weight: 122 lb (55.3 kg) Total shuttle EVA suit weight: 275 lb (124.7 kg) Total ISS EVA suit weight: 319 lb...
pressurization of a pressuresuit or pressurized compartment, vehicle or habitat, and may be controlled or uncontrolled, or the reduction of pressure in a hypobaric...
Armstrong limit (about 62,000 ft or 19 km, above which humans require a pressuresuit in order to survive) and the Kármán line (where astrodynamics must take...
Mexico, United States, in a helium balloon before free falling in a pressuresuit and then parachuting to Earth. The total jump, from leaving the capsule...
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