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Topic: Photo of the week 114 (January 6)
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heng44
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From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 01-06-2007 03:55 AM
   
 A relaxed-looking Jerry Carr and his suit technician joke with the NASA-photographer during suiting up for a training session. Carr commanded the record-breaking final Skylab-mission, which was launched in November 1973. Ed Hengeveld |
Tom
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From: New York
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 01-06-2007 09:19 AM
Great Skylab era photo, Ed...thanks! |
FutureAstronaut
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posted 01-06-2007 09:21 AM
I really love the Snoopy Cap's.
Great picture!------------------
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Philip
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From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 01-06-2007 10:46 AM
Kerwin look-alike technician I would say  |
heng44
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From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 01-06-2007 01:24 PM
Anyone know the suit tech's name?Ed |
carmelo
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From: Messina, Sicilia, Italia
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 01-07-2007 05:25 PM
But why the brown harness for Skylab spacesuits? |
Tom
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From: New York
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 01-07-2007 07:13 PM
quote:
Originally posted by carmelo:
But why the brown harness for Skylab spacesuits?
Brown harness was also used on ASTP suits.
And for some reason, the Apollo 17 astronauts used brown flight suits while previous Apollo crews wore blue or white. |
carmelo
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From: Messina, Sicilia, Italia
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 01-08-2007 10:31 AM
...Skylab and ASTP flightsuit were brown,and the EES suits worn by STS-1/STS-4 Astronauts were...brown! In mid 70s-early 80s had be somewere NASA manager that loved the brown color. |
DavidH
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From: Huntsville, AL, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted 01-08-2007 11:12 AM
From "Homesteading Space," the forthcoming Skylab history from the Outward Odyssey series from the University of Nebraka Press: quote:
Eventually, the Skylab astronauts all agreed on a clothing set. It contained cotton T-shirts for warm weather wear, and provisioned a change of underwear every two days and of outerwear once a week. The outerwear was made of a fireproof cloth, polybenzemidazole (called PBI; "We couldn't pronounce it either," quipped Kerwin) that only came in a golden brown. But it was comfortable. Rejected were the proposed small-bore fiberglass (called "beta cloth") items, which itched.
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carmelo
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From: Messina, Sicilia, Italia
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posted 01-08-2007 11:48 AM
This is very important! are way to know if the outer layer cover os EES Shuttle suits (STS-1/STS-4) were to polybenzemidazole? |
OV-105
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From: Ridgecrest, CA
Registered: Sep 2000
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posted 01-08-2007 03:47 PM
I belive the suits on STS-1 through STS-4 were SR-71/U-2 suits. All of the ones that I have seen were the gold/brownish color. |
Robert Pearlman
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From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 01-08-2007 04:11 PM
Quoting U.S. Spacesuits by Kenneth S. Thomas and Harold J. McMann (page 38): quote:
The crew [of the first four shuttle launches] was outfitted with David Clark Company Model S1030A Ejection Escape Suits. These were 2.7 psi (18.6 kPa) full pressure suits that were a derivation of the US Air Force Model S1030 Pilot's Protective Assembly then worn by the crewmembers of the SR-71 high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft.
At least one of the suits (if not more) is believe to have been returned to the Air Force after its use by the shuttle program. |
Spacewalker
Member Posts: 16
From: Lecco - Italy
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 01-08-2007 04:38 PM
quote:
Originally posted by OV-105:
I belive the suits on STS-1 through STS-4 were SR-71/U-2 suits. All of the ones that I have seen were the gold/brownish color.
Yes, David Clark model S1030A but in some cases the outer layer was white and in some other gold/yellow. As regards ASTP suit: Quoting U.S. Spacesuits by Kenneth S. Thomas and Harold J. McMann (page 228): quote:
Since there was no EVA, the suits were modified to reduce weight and cost. The normal outer cover layer of Teflon Beta Cloth with underlayers of aluminized Kapton with Nylon spacers was replaced with Teflon Beta polybenzimidazole (PBI) fabric, whitch increased its durability.
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icarkie
Member Posts: 618
From: BURTON ON TRENT /England
Registered: Nov 2002
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posted 01-13-2007 11:44 AM
quote:
Originally posted by heng44:
Anyone know the suit tech's name?
No Ed, but I was looking at another post on this site on the Apollo mission photo link the same guy is suiting up Haise.  Ian
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