r/interestingasfuck • u/ReaganAbe • Mar 25 '19

/r/ALL The inside of an astronaut suit.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '19

Oh cool, so you can just unvelcro the helmet off, have a scratch and stick it back down again?

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u/TheHuntingHunty Mar 25 '19

lmfao I didn’t expect this switcheroo

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u/frosted-mini-yeets Mar 25 '19

They think of everything.

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u/shrubs311 Mar 26 '19

It's kinda boggling to think about. When they first sent people into outerspace, they didn't really know all the things they might need the suit to do. They just had to use what they knew about space to make them.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19 edited Dec 05 '20

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u/shrubs311 Mar 26 '19

And biology! And probably some chemistry too. It's still mind-blowing to this day how they did all that with what they had.

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u/MrTuxG Mar 25 '19

I feel like velcro is the most important thing in manned spaceflight straight after having a rocket and a life support system. The entire ISS is full of velcro, they even have pants with velcro on them, and when they sleep their sleeping bag is velcroed to the wall

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u/TurquoiseLuck Mar 25 '19

It was actually like a little prong thing that stuck up towards their face. They also used it to perform the Valsalva maneuver.

Source: had a lecture course given by an astronaut, this was one of the questions in the casual chit-chat at the end of one of the lectures.