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From what I can gather it’s a misleading term. What is being postulated online is that the standard internal pressure of the suit was doubled while in vacuum to test against bursting.


8 posted on 08/24/2017 10:47:58 AM PDT by Artemis Webb (Maxine Waters for House Minority Leader!!)
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From what I can gather it’s a misleading term. What is being postulated online is that the standard internal pressure of the suit was doubled while in vacuum to test against bursting.

Sounds correct. Probably a 29.4 psi pressure differential, rather than normal sea level of 14.7 psi.

27 posted on 08/24/2017 6:13:07 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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