A NASA gallery image of three spacesuits: the Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU), the Constellation Space Suit System, and the Z-2 suit prototype of the Advanced Space Suit Project. NASA
Posted on 04/26/2017 5:34:34 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A government audit released on Wednesday found that a next-generation flight suit known as the Orion Crew Survival System (OCSS) won’t be delivered until March 2021, just five months before NASA’s internal target launch date for the first crewed test flight of SLS and Orion.
The OCSS is one of three spacesuits NASA has worked on to replace shuttle-era equipment still in use aboard the International Space Station. The Inspector General’s audit found that despite spending nearly $200 million over the past 10 years, NASA is at risk of running out of time to test any of the new spacesuits aboard the station before its planned retirement in 2024.
At the behest of the White House, in February NASA undertook a study to consider adding crew to an earlier mission, known as Exploration Mission-1 or EM-1, which is currently an unmanned mission around the moon scheduled to launch at the end of 2018.
NASA has not yet revealed whether adding crew to the mission is feasible, but all astronauts flying on Orion will be required to wear an OCSS. The spacesuit, which is to be worn during launch and landing, is designed to protect astronauts from fire, smoke, and toxic chemicals. It would also provide a redundant pressurized atmosphere in case of a problem with the capsule.
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In addition to OCSS, NASA has worked on two pressurized spacesuits that astronauts can wear during spacewalks, referred to as extravehicular activity (EVA) in NASA parlance. The first is the Constellation Space Suit System, which originally was developed as part of the Bush-era, moon-bound Constellation exploration program that was canceled in 2010.
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The project to develop a new suit was cancelled by Obama in the last year or so.
the Z-2 suit
Otherwise known as the “Zoot Suit”?
Oh, the Z suit for sure, and it already has
a big logo on it!
Just needs day glo colours!
NASA reported a few months ago that, somehow, they are no longer able to pierce the 5,000 F heat and radiation of the Van Allen Belt.
But they know how to drink their own pee. So lovely.
$200 million “developing”? Send robots.
Give free enterprise 1/10th that stand back.
Heck, make it a contest like that stupid Toy Box one.
Except that’s not true: https://www.google.com/amp/www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/07/28/moon-disease-apollo-astronauts-more-likely-to-die-of-heart-probl/amp/
Now that Obama has left office, at least they can leave out the prayer rug.
lol. Great suits. Have pictures of pop in them :)
Somebody tried to ruin my 200 million dollar suit.
You a piece of ### Frank.
:)
I've also read that aluminum, when struck by a high-energy particle is easily capable of losing and loosing a neutron to go plowing into whatever is in the way, such as say, DNA.
I can only imagine the pace they work. “Well, in a few months we will narrow the color selection down” What’s a sense of urgency? Give me 10% of that budget and I will start from zero tomorrow and , hey if it doesn’t work out, they still have saved 90% of their budget!
Spacesuits are eventually going to have circulating water in suits for this reason. It auto-controls temperature, it protects against radiation, and place a water-activated polymer on the outside and if the suit is punctured by a microsatellite or mistake the suit can autoseal from the leakage of water.
Approximately two feet of water is a tenth thickness for gamma. That is it will reduce the dose to 1/10th of the previous dose.
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They should just use the ones they went to the moon with.
No radiation problems there.
Funny you should mention Zoot suits,
In the Starfire series, powered armor suits were called Zoot suits.
https://www.amazon.com/Shiva-Option-Starfire-Book-ebook/dp/B00AP9XFCQ
Does it come in pin stripes and with a violin case?
There wasn’t a lot of radiation coming from Stanley Kubrick’s video camera on the set of the moon landing.
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