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Topic: Oldest photo of space shuttle EMU spacesuit
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carmelo
Member Posts: 1047
From: Messina, Sicilia, Italia
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 04-27-2017 01:14 PM
   
Which is the oldest picture available of an Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) space suit, and which year is?I have found this released by NASA on May 17, 1977... there are more old pictures?  |
heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 05-12-2017 01:12 PM
This is from a series dated March 1976. |
Headshot
Member Posts: 864
From: Vancouver, WA, USA
Registered: Feb 2012
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posted 05-13-2017 01:48 PM
Were ANY shuttle missions actually equipped with one of those "rescue balls?" |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 05-13-2017 02:14 PM
Quoting "Space Rescue: Ensuring the Safety of Manned Spacecraft" by David Shayler, with regards to the Personal Rescue Enclosure (PRE), commonly known as the "rescue ball": Such systems were abandoned during the early years of the program, as the operational realities of the program revealed the true lead time it would take to prepare a second vehicle, launch it and rendezvous with a stricken vehicle. Artistic impressions of what such a rescue system may have looked like were released, but the actual enclosures were never flown on a real mission. ...though PREs have never flown on a shuttle mission, they continue to be used during the selection process for astronaut candidates, in an evaluation of their reaction to confined spaces and stress situations. |
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Member Posts: 864
From: Vancouver, WA, USA
Registered: Feb 2012
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posted 05-13-2017 03:02 PM
Thanks Robert. I hadn't heard of the proper name ... PRE before. Regardless, there is no way I would have ever gotten into one of those damn things. | |
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